The great thing about the persistently growing zombie fad is that anyone — at any point during their day, regardless of their activity — can be turned into a zombie and therefore find themselves stuck in that outfit for the rest of their undead lives. Thus, our costumes for 2011: Zombie Businessman (me) and Zombie Triathlete (him).

We briefly considered Zombie Pharmacist and Zombie Fly Fisherman but those seemed too conventional.

Alas, my 6th-grade daughter didn’t want to dress up, zombified or otherwise, this year.