Thanks to LES member Jaena Hollingsworth, we now have our very own Facebook group. Join today at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=63799751170. The group offers another forum to meet and interact with your fellow LES members, so stop over and start a discussion topic, upload photos of past LES events, or just write something witty on the wall.
I hope folks don’t mind a slightly off-topic post, but in response to requests from…well, nobody, I thought I’d share a few photos from my Halloween activities at the library this year. I, along with two colleagues and my very accommodating wife (who also works at the university), dressed up as the band KISS. We spent the day distributing candy and staff Halloween party invitations at the various library branches (an activity we dubbed “rock or treating”), had lunch in the student union, then showed up at the staff party in time to take home the prize for best costumes. A few observations from our day-long stint as rock superstars:
1. Proper application of KISS makeup takes a seriously long time. Do not attempt unless you have a solid 2 hours to devote to your art. Similarly, please allow 30 days for satisfactory application of sequins and rhinestones to women’s running clothes. 
2. KISS recognition among undergraduate students (and particularly among foreign graduate students) is, at best, hit or miss. KISS recognition among construction workers, however, is nearly 100%.
3. Librarians (if you’ll forgive the sweeping generalization) are generally uncertain as to how to respond to a colleague wearing full face makeup and spiked papier mache shoulder pads. Attempts to camouflage this uncertainty by pointing out Halloween-themed socks are wildly inappropriate. Seriously, I’m wearing a wig, a cape, chains, sequin-covered arm guards, dragon-scale shinguards, and the aforementioned makeup and shoulder pads. Your socks with pumpkins don’t quite compete.
All in all, though, a fun day at the library. My only regret is that I didn’t have time for a reference desk shift and answer a few patron questions. (My answer to every question would have been either a) rock ‘n roll all night or b) party everyday.)