Return to School

Hello all, its good to finally be back after the hiatus of summer. Might as well as get right back into the swing of things.

Back at school, there are some things I noticed I missed, and some things I noticed I didn't miss.

Things I missed :
Unlimited dining hall food.
Freedom.
Going to sleep at 3-4 am.
Halo is always on... somewhere...
Never have to clean the bathroom.
My fridge has a plentiful stock of Natty's.
Availability of constant distraction by friends doing useless things.

Things I didn't miss :
The unlimited dining hall food...
Going to sleep at 3-4 am..
Halo is ALWAYS on...somewhere...
The bathroom that no one has cleaned from weekend escapades on a Sunday morning...
Homework.
No food in my fridge.. all the space is taken up by Natty's
My friends always distracting me when I need to do work.

I am on fall break right now, and one thing I am catching up on is sleep. It's like a plague of breaks. Sleep gets irrationally ranked over other activities for the first few days back because I have no schedule to interrupt sleep. For example, on Monday, I actually slept more hours in the day than I was awake. And during the breaks between the 4 naps I took, I ate during three of them. I worked out during the other "break" from sleeping. I actually accomplished accomplishing nothing. I felt so accomplished.

I never thought I would have to censor my Facebook wallposts and comments based on the time of posting. "We should hang out and catch up" might be interpreted differently if posted at 3:47am instead of mid-afternoon. Keep that in mind.

Yankees rule.

I got back to Long Island from Notre Dame in Indiana by way of 12-passenger van with the Crew team; we competed at the Head of the Charles in Boston this past Saturday (2nd..whattup) and drove out starting Thursday afternoon. Staring out the window for hours, I realized that I "racially-profiled" each car based on it's license plate, obviously completely unwarranted. New York drivers were of course the best and most awesome. New Jersey cars smelled bad. CT and MA were snooty and stuck up. Californians were laid back, didn't care about cruising in the right hand lane. Ohio drivers were terrible. And every car from the West/Mid-West obviously held the most boring and slow drivers and passengers possible.
After stopping for dinner at some shady PA rest stop, I pointed to a van in the parking lot with an Indiana license plate... "Well I bet THAT van contains a bunch of fun people." I voiced aloud, pointing.
It was our van. Fail.


Hope everyone's school year is better than the last. Unless you had to join the real world...haha.

-Garrett