Thanksgiving is over, so is Fall (part 1)

Which does not mean that it is winter yet. Nope, now its Christmas Season!!!!

So, as many of you know, I stayed here at the UO in my dorm for Thanksgiving, which is not nearly as lame as staying here for Christmas or something, but is still pretty bad. I wasn't alone though, fortunately I had Ryan around to prevent me from doing too much damage, and keep me civilized. It was a near thing though, because seriously, it is way too much fun to sneak around the empty halls or in the creepy basement. By myself. At 2am.

The only thing more fun than starring in my own imagined thriller/action/comedy/romance blockbuster all weekend was watching tv. I watched seasons 1 and 2 of the Office, which I do consider an important investment in my relative social capital, since so many of my new friends here are fans and quote the show constantly. Similarly, I watched many hours (though no complete seasons) of Gilmore Girls with Ryan this weekend, because he has all the seasons, and I had never seen it before (jeez, don't look so shocked). So basically, I got educated, and I now have yet another option to spend days of time, just in case I ever find myself totally without anything to do. Like this weekend, except without all the homework that I put off.

On the actual day of Thanksgiving I went to Ryan Moore of Northwest Collegiate Ministries' house and had a beautiful and delicious meal with lovely company, and we played a fun game, which incorporated, as always, having to know something about The Office, as well as many other pop culture tidbits.

Then Thursday night, Ryan and I were bored, and Ryan was hungry with his woeful addiction to icky greasy nasty fast food, so we went out to see if any was to be found. (I just wanted coffee, I was absolutely not going to eat any of those unnatural, disgusting, hot, juicy, delectable fries, no siree). To make a long, ridiculous story short, nobody was open! Not in all of Eugene or Springfield! This was a shock. I am sure that the two of us were not the only people whose business was lost by these establishments! I mean seriously, Turkey Dinner was hours ago, and d'you think just maybe people might be hungry again??? And tired of Thanksgiving foods?? And maybe just want hot coffee!!!!!????

As you can tell, it was a little difficult to find food or coffee this weekend, because not only was the dining in our building closed, but everywhere else was too, which doesn't seem like as much of a problem for people who go home and have leftovers etc to eat, but for us in the dorms... It was a bit of a trial, but I endured.

If I was being introspective, which I guess is my purpose for blogging, I would make some remarks about how much I am totally reliant on convenience. I expect the doors downstairs to be unlocked and to always have food or at least water from the soda machines whenever I want it, which I realize is kind of ridiculous. I also realized that I really drink too much coffee because I had almost shamefully intense withdrawals this weekend. I had only two cups of coffee, one Friday night and one Saturday night, and that was very much not enough. I think I usually have two or three a day. I don't know where this narrative is going, except that I should probably set some goal for myself, like drinking less, or more decaf, or spending less money on coffee, but I have no intentions of doing so right now, because it is Monday morning of Dead Week, oooooh!
Meh, maybe next term when I'm marathon training or something equally ridiculous.

More to come! Stick around! As it is dead week, I will be doing much more Procrastinating By Any Means Necessary, which means more blogging!!!!! Right now I have 2.5 hours of sleep and need to go shower and get ready before meeting Brittany before getting more coffee before Misericordia Nat'l Conference this afternoon, in which we have to lead our sector! Yikes! Nap later! Then more coffee followed by more procrastinating and later: homework due by midnight tonight and early tomorrow morning! Still to come this week: fretting about Christmas parties, my writing portfolio, my leadership final project, my business SuperQuiz, and my INTL Final!!!!!!