Thanks for Giving... me a break

Right now, its 6:45 PM, and I just got out of my math class. Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving, I'm getting a private gig on the mean green express straight to my destination. Despite how I live a few blocks from the stop I'm getting off at, I couldn't resist the opportunity to take advantage of this. This town gets pretty quiet during beak time. To be fair, the whole campus is closed. It closed at noon today, but I still chose to go to math because the teacher offered extra credit. the bus driver told me I was his first passenger in 3 hours. He was a jolly fellow that laughed and talked with me on the way home. I don't normally take the mean green express but since the next North Texas bus came in 20 minutes and this bus was leaving instantly, I took it. The Mean Green Express, by the way, passes by my old dorm. It gave me quite the Nostalgia trip seeing my old dorm. I met my girlfriend and made all my friends out of this dorm. At first I was hesitant to live there but now that I look back on it, it was definitely worth the while. My roommate became my best friend and now still live with him in an apartment complex. People used to tell me that I shouldn't live in the dorms because it was just a bunch of partying and I would never be able to focus on my school work. Others told me it is all part of the college experience and highly recommended it. In my humble opinion, dorm life is worth trying out at least for a semester or 2 so that you can get to know the people on campus and make new friends.

This table is where I would sit and chat with other people that lived in Santa Fe.

Anyway, enough of the Nostalgia trip. The bus driver has dropped me off and I'm going home. See you next week. Enjoy your long weekend full of turkey and shopping(?)!!!!!!

The Tryptophan is NOT a Lie

It gets really hard to concentrate on work whenever there's a holiday right around the corner. Just like it's hard to concentrate when you've eaten turkey. You know that old myth that says turkey makes you sleepy? IT'S TRUE. Although Wikipedia claims that most meat products you eat contain tryptophan, it also states that it depends on what you consume with your meat. I'm assuming that eating a turkey sandwich, what with its bread, lettuce, tomato, and cheese, that that is one solid recipe for a good night's sleep. I know this from experience. Take it from me: Don't ever have a turkey sandwich before an evening class. Especially if that class is Advanced Voice over IP. (Still sorry about that, Mr. Brierley)

This is what makes you so tired...

With all this Turkey Talk though, you must be thinking, "Brett, you're a little late. Thanksgiving was a week ago". Touche. But there was so much Turkey made, I'm still having left overs. Not before my evening classes of course...

On a side note, I read an interesting article detailing the use of mobile phones over "Black Friday." It said that paypal use over mobile phones for electronic sales increased 600% over the thanksgiving holiday. Likely because of the "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday" fiasco and a sharp increase in the use of smartphones. I'm sorry to say that I did not partake in the shopping frenzy. I'm too busy buying an education I suppose. All this education stuff pays off eventually. After all, a large majority of jobs in the US require college education in order to qualify. In fact, CNN's Money section declares "Systems Engineer" (see IT) the number 1 job in America. I have a good feeling about my career choice...