Boo!

Introducing pets into the Chung household is like sending those poor creatures to their deaths.

Death count:

2 tropical fish

1 baby frog

1 goat (the other one, I'm sure, ended up on someone's dinner plate).

As far as I'm concerned, the only pets that should be allowed in our family are

(a) a pet rock,

(b) a sponge, or

(c) cactus,

although, with (b), I'm not so sure. Anyway, it's Halloween, and we have a tradition here at Harnwell College House (aka: the Ochre highrise), where the RA's/GA's beautify the Harnwell lobby with the works: cobwebs, furry spiders, paper ghosts and bats, scarecrows, and of course, the requisite GIANT BLACK CAT that just...sits there waiting to be stolen, but too big for the job; and one-by-one, things start to disappear, ending up in various residents' dorm rooms. By Halloween, I can almost guarantee, the lobby will be like a skeleton of its former, festive self- a few cobwebs here, a candy wrapper there.

Anyway, meet our new pet, Boo! Boo is a white paper-ghost, with an accordian-style body, orange eyes and a winning smile. The best, most fantastic thing about Boo is, no matter how many times you drop him from the internet cord, or how many times you forget to feed him- no problem- he's already dead! How genius is that? A ghost is the perfect pet for the Chung family.