Never Doubt The Millenium Falcon

Boy, its been a while. I guess its time for the Thanksgiving Break Round-Up!

Tuesday:
Jeff & I hit the road right after Heat Transfer finished, and got into town not much later than usual. Traffic was annoying on I-24, scary on I-440, and down right perilous on I-40. That was a combination of a whole lot of cars on the road and driving straight into the sun. Anyway, I spent the evening keeping Jennifer company in the RD suite while she was on duty, and we watched Walk the Line. Good movie.

Wednesday:
I slept in (nice), and made it over to Jennifer's apartment sometime in the afternoon and watched TV / helped her do some baking. I also demolished the leftover fudge she had made for some of her law school friends. Later on, we were met by Justin & Dawn at Buffalo Wild Wings to reap the benefits of a previous Trivia Night victory - 100 free wings. We wound up getting 30 Spicy Garlic, 30 Medium, 20 Mild, and 20 Parmesan Garlic wings. And they were all tasty (well, the Mild ones were ok. We ordered those because Dawn is a light-weight).

Thursday:
First, I had lunch at the Longo's. This was the first year that I was there when the meal started. Up until now, it always seemed like I showed up in the Serengeti at a wildebeast kill after the lions, hyenas, vultures, and meerkats have had their fill. It was different this time, though - I saw food! It was pretty good, but not as good as at MY house.

So, I don't get in a rush about hustling over to my house, because I told my parents that we'd be over before 1:00, and they said they'd wait. We pull up to the house at about 12:45, walk in the door and what do we see? Right - everyone is eating. No big deal though, because there's always PLENTY of everything. Fried turkey, barbecue pork, smashed potatoes, black eyed peas, the orange stuff, rolls, sausage balls, and nine kinds of dessert. I'm salivating again, just typing. I also got to meet the new math professor at CBU, Miguel Arellano. He was very nice and we had a brief conversation about my classes. It was also great just getting to sit and talk with family.

THEN Jennifer and I went over to her aunt's house (and Jennifer can almost remember how to get there now) for dessert. Oy. Her grandmother makes pretty good fudge, if you're willing to pick out the volkswagon-size almonds. The chocolate pie was also pretty good. The family is very nice, and they nod and smile when I explain where I go to school and what I do.

Friday:
Brent wanted to play disc golf - fine. At 9:00 - not so fine. But I went anyways, and kicked his butt. And Jeff was there too. After lunch at McAlister's (tasty!) I went back to the house and vegged a little bit. Later that evening, a bunch of us (Me, Jennifer, BJ, Marly, Jeff, Russell, Scott, Whitney, Justin, Dawn, Garrett, and Kristen) went to Texas de Brazil with the half-price coupons. Its still a little steep at that, but come on. Steak! Afterwards we went back to Jennifer's apartment and played a game of Inklings! (I'm not going to explain it here). Afterwards we played Trivial Pursuit - Pop Culture Edition. The Smart Asymptotes + Jennifer, Whitney, and Marly kicked butt.

Saturday:
I got up and started working on getting Christmas stuff set up. If I don't do it, I don't think it'll get done. And it was fun watching Mack freak out when I started putting the tree together. At some point I did shatter a flood lamp bulb, but that's neither here nor there. Later on, Jennifer and I saw Happy Feet, which was hilarious and ate at Huey's. I recommend the Madison Ave burger.

Sunday:
I went and saw Jennifer before heading back, then hit the road around 2:00. The drive back had slightly less traffic, but Smokey was definitely out there. At one point near the Tennessee River, it looked like some State Troopers had busted up something big - illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, or cattle rustlers; it was hard to tell. The Sonic Chili-Cheese wrap is good.

And that brings us up to this week. Classes are winding down, I just have two more attendances for each of my classes before finals start. How did that happen?

And geez this got long. I hope none of you wished I would update, you really should have used that golden opportunity to get world peace.