Thanksgiving Break

What an interesting week it was for me over Thanksgiving break

It all started out with an all-nighter to prepare for a make-up exam that I had to take before I could leave for break. I felt confident in taking and felt confident that I would get good results from it. I would, however, find out that I ended up getting a 56% on it so I had to settle for my original exam grade instead (which really wasn’t that much better). It was quite a bummer which led me to question whether or not I would stay in chemistry any longer. I’m still thinking about it and am leaning towards staying in chemistry as my overall grade isn’t all that bad. All in all, that was the only gut-wrenching thing to occur during the break. The rest neutralized the bitter taste that was left in my mouth.
After taking my make-up exam, I went to a meeting with my University Studies advisor to discuss my dropping of my chemistry lab. I had taken the course because I thought it was a required to take a lab with the science that I chose. It turned out, later on, that I was wrong and did not really have to take the lab with my science; I would have to take a lab if I chose a major that required one but it would not have to be taken with the science. Unfortunately, I learned this after the add/drop deadline had passed and had to use one of my six withdraws. After a lot of confusion and decision making, I decided to take the withdraw and be done with chem. Lab. Afterwards, following the said appointment, I went back to my dorm to pack up for my return to Richmond for the following week. I also unplugged everything as they required me to do so to avoid any sort of fire hazard that might occur while I was gone. I also cleaned out my fridge so that no food would spoil while I was away. I even scrubbed out the bottom of it and defrosted it just to be on the safe side. After following these, as well as other, precautions, I went to take my stuff out to my parents’ van and then pretty much octuple-checked to make sure everything was taken care of before I left Tech. It was and, after a three hour ride, I was back again in Richmond.
My week at home started out with me and my sister going to view a stand up performance of a famous stand-up comedian that I highly respect who goes by the name of Brian Regan; I had received tickets to see one of his performances as a birthday gift from my mom and dad. Brian Regan is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central several times and is one of my favorites. His acts are relatively clean but still leave you rolling on the floor feeling like you’re going to bust a gut due to uncontrollable laughter. His brother also performed in the performance as the opening act. There were a few technical difficulties at the start of the show but everything got fixed and the show resumed as would be expected. Mr. Regan’s jokes includes jokes about holiday traditions, playing with kids, and trying to assemble a barbeque grill as well as many other jokes that made me crack up again and again. I thought it was a wonderful performance and found it to be very funny and amusing as comedians usually are.
Other than the stand-up performance, I spent my Thanksgiving break at home with the rest of my family in Richmond, Virginia; The one thing I liked about being off was seeing them again. I even got to see my brother, Sam, who came down to Richmond from New Jersey on Wednesday. Aside for the feast, which I’ll get to in a little while, we all just laid around, watched football and played board games for the most part. I got to play risk for the first time in my life and actually hung around for awhile until I got clobbered in the end.
Obviously, one of the greatest parts of being home for Thanksgiving break was that I got to partake in Thanksgiving Dinner or in my family’s case, Thanksgiving Lunch (we ate pretty early). There was plenty of food to go around throughout the course of that meal: turkey, ham, potatoes, green beans, rolls, deviled eggs, custard pie, pumpkin pie, and strawberry pie. Even after twelve of us ate at this wondrous feast, there was still plenty of leftovers; we barely made a dent in that large turkey and my dad took the rest of it and put it, as well as the many side dishes, into a numerous amount of containers that ended up barely fitting into the fridge. Then again, if you look at it, there wasn’t anything uniqueabout the whole Thanksgiving meal. As my other favorite comedian, Jim Gaffigan, puts it: “Thanksgiving is a holiday where we do what we normally do everyday, overeat, but we do it with other family members.
The weekend following Thanksgiving, we all gathered around the television to watch the VirginiTech Hokies play a football game against their bitter in-state rivals, the Cavaliers from the University of Virginia. After a slow start take would finally take control of the game with freshman running back, Ryan Williams, having a career day with three or four touchdown runs. Tech ended up winning the game by a convincing score of 42 points to Virginia’s 13 points.That turned out to be the Virginia Coach’s last game as we was fired shortly afterwards. That night following the game I packed up and got ready to go back to tech. I ended up staying up until three o’clock in the morning and felt crappy waking up a few hours later.
After my parents drove me to Tech and dropped me off, I got all my belongings in and said hello to friends in my dorm and welcomed them back. Shortly after that, I realized that I had no food as I had emptied out my fridge the previous week. After shopping around at Wal-Mart for a couple of hours, I got the necessary foods that I would need for the remaining weeks of the semester. And here I am now, finishing up the blog, being the great procrastinator that I am, before the ten o’clock deadline. It was a great Thanksgiving break and I look forward to cracking the books one final time before closing out the semester.