It’s that time of year. The leaves they are a-changin’. People start to bundle up. People turn their thoughts to the next two months which encompass the Holiday Season.

Before that can happen, though, one must recover first.

It’s that day of the year, the day after Halloween specifically, when people all over attempt to recover from that day of acquiring candy and then eating said candy.

It’s hard, very hard, to come down from that sugar high, and one feels even worse when they do.

There should be sugar rehab centers for trick-or-treaters.

In the mean time, lay low today.

And if someone asks, give them a reason why you couldn’t go to class or work.

* The same as last year: too much candy for your gut. Try building up a sugar immunity a few weeks before Halloween next year so it doesn’t happen again.

* It was too cold, or it was raining when you were trick-or-treating. You have the flu today.

* Your mom smacked you because you ate a piece of candy before she could inspect it. Emotional scars.

* You tripped on the way to the front door of a house and tore your Superman costume and all the other kids laughed at you. Emotional scars.

* You forgot to cut eye holes in your ghost costume and eventually asphyxiated under the sheet. You will, however, save the morgue on linen costs.

* The sugar high hangover. Worse than alcohol by far, so it’s good Halloween comes once a year. There’s never a toast with Mallow Bars, but there is a Pixie Stick shot.

* You got lost trick-or-treating, and woke up in a dark ally in some town you’ve never been to before with the remains of a peanut butter cup wedged in your teeth. It took you two days to get back to Ames.

* You ran into the only group of kids who decided to trick for Halloween instead of treat. You didn’t give them candy because of this and will regret it for the rest of your life.

* You did the “grown-up” thing and got drunk on Halloween.

Enough said.