I Am Whatever You Want Me To Be

Halloween has come and gone in a flash. I didn't put much thought into my costume for work this year. I just wasn't that much into it. However, I did dress up, finding a robe-ish type outfit in the costume tote. Funny thing about the outfit: no one knows where it came from. I had to adapt it some, not liking the funny rubber things that were going across the chest. I pulled out some necklaces from my grandmother's jewelry box, painted both my toe nails and finger nails black, and put some dark shade of eye make-up on and you get this:

Every year, students will ask me what I am suppose to be and every year I tell them I am whatever they want me to be. This year I heard everything from a red witch, a wizard (thought only men could be a that), the devil's bride (love that) but my all time favorite has to a lady bug! Yes a lady bug because of the four black spots on the front that were left went I removed the rubber plates. I really do love dressing up with no set conception of being anything specific if for no other reason it drives some students nuts! I had a student in the morning ask me what I was, I told him I was whatever he thought I was, other students in the group named several things and he shrugged his shoulders, acting like it was no big deal. Later in the day, he asked me again, and again I told him what I had told him before. He took in a deep breathe and again asked me what was I suppose to be as in "When you got dress this morning, what did you think you were going to be." He was totally frustrated with me when I told him again, that I was whatever he wanted me to be.

The truth of the matter, I love challenging their imagination in order to make them think, because it's not often that I get to be whatever you think you want me to be.