Driving past the high school today, I saw a number of costumed people. Even at the law school, there are plenty of people dressed up. Halloween is the day that this society acknowledges that mask. We all wear different masks throughout the day, throughout the year (the corporate yes-person, the dutiful child, the loving spouse). Some masks are closer to the real skin underneath than are others. We all play our parts. But today, we get to change our mask—show the skin underneath, or what we wished it was.

Today, my mask is vampire hunter, and I’m reminded of my first Model Congress, when I had to be a democrat. The mask rankled. I wanted everyone to know that I wasn’t on the inside what I appeared on the outside. The mask was the antithesis of the skin. Today my skin is trying to be at home inside the mask. I look great! But a part of me just can’t get into it. The day is yet young, however

What masks are you wearing today? What do they say about the skin underneath?