blood (or pumpkin spice) is in the air

Everywhere I went today, I felt like there was conflict all around me. There was MAJOR drama at work that I can't go into on such a public forum, but suffice to say, someone could have said "rawr!" and not been out of line.
Then tonight, my friend Laura and I were walking down the street and some guy screamed out "I'm going to kill you!!!!" (there might have been expletives, I don't remember). Laura actually turned around and laughed jollily to him, which I thought was a rather odd reaction. My reaction was to walk faster. She thought it was charming? I guess? She said it was just nice to not have the "random guy on street" not be saying something sexual for once, which was kinda true.
Finally, coming home from Laura's, a brawl almost broke out in front of us in the T station. Two drunk guys bumped into each other, I guess. One guy took this as an opportunity to start something and started egging the other guy on... really provoking him. The other guy, fortunately, had about 8 friends holding him back. This guy was yelling horrible things, though, throwing stuff at him... really trying to get him to fight. It's weird. What makes you REALLY REALLY want to fight a guy and 8 of his closest friends? Connor and I think he must have been an adrenaline junkie or something. The MBTA office very helpfully stood in the corner and gaped the whole time... I don't think anything came of it. I hope not; we went downstairs. So I don't know if there's a full moon or if someone released that poison gas from the Batman Begins movie or what, but something is UP today.

On that note: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! May Your Holidays Be Joyful And Safe.