Legally Wandering Jen

             I’ve always hated Halloween.   It had been seven years since my real reason for hating it, but this year still didn’t stop the haunting memories.   On October 31, 2017, I wandered around shops and restaurants on my last day of my first true vacation since I had graduated law school.   My life had been consumed with work and doing what everyone else expected of me.   I couldn’t remember the last thing I had done because I wanted to do it, until I went on this trip.   I felt cool, calm, and collected.   Actually, I felt the best I had felt since that horrid Halloween weekend in 2010.                I purposely chose to take a red eye back to San Diego on Halloween night so that I could avoid the costumes and activities surrounding the holiday that brought back so many feelings of dread.   I arrived at the airport early to avoid the expected ten-fifteen thousand people who would be celebrating in Waikiki.   The Honolulu airport was quiet as to be expected,