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I didn't know what to write about, so I stole Emily's idea and wrote about my break...

Thanksgiving break was amazing. I can't even believe it's over. Nothing but a week of serenity, chilling at my dad’s house (my old house) in Long Island, playing Xbox and hanging out with my family.

            The week was set off to a rough start though. My way back home was with my brother who’s a senior here. Instead of most of my friends and the rest of campus who left Friday, because of him I had to wait till late Saturday to embark on hour 5-hour drive to Chesapeake. It sucked. I was the ONLY person who hadn’t left yet in my dorm. Even most of my pledge brothers had left. Friday night I ended up hanging out with the only two who hadn’t, my pledge brothers Marcus and Ryan. So seeing how we were all bored out of our minds, we ended up just chilling at Ryan’s apartment for most of the night, drinking cold beverages and playing Halo 4. This was the first time I’ve played Halo 4, and if you’re a fan of the previous Halo games then you would know how awesome Halo is. But this Halo was awesomer than most Halo’s; the best one they’ve made in my opinion. It was actually made by a different company than the companies that made the last ones. So there were a few differences, but they were all great. But anyways.. So after a while we all ended up going to my brothers girlfriends house so Ryan and Marcus can set up Christmas lights in her room for my brothers signature. ( My brothers a brother in our fraternity, and as pledges we basically we have to get all the brothers signatures by either doing something for them or just hanging out with them or something.) While we were there, Christine, his girlfriend, made us the BESTTT buffalo wings everrrr. Seriously, words fall short trying to describe how good they were. But after a while my pledge brothers left, and I spent the night there, thinking we’ll wake up at about noon and leave and get home at about 4 or 5. But boy was I wrong. Surprisingly my brother did actually managed to get up at noon, but then we went to get breakfast at this restaurant on Main Street. I forgot the name but it was really good. I had sushi for one of the first times and it was amazing. Plus they had really cool chopsticks; which I kind of stole, but that’s just going to be our little secret. J But finally after breakfast, we had to go back to my brother dorm because of course he hadn’t  pack yet. AND OF CORUSE he didn’t sign up for fall housing, so at this point his key didn’t work to get in, so we had to wait 20 minutes in front of East AJ for someone to walk by and let us in. Then finally he gets his stuff together and we get ready to leave. I help him drag some of his stuff into the hall, and as we’re waiting for the elevator he realizes he left his car keys in his room. And OF COURSE the door to his suite was locked, and his key to the dorm is on the same key ring as his car keys so we had to wait another 45 minutes for like the only RA on campus to get there and let us in. We didn’t end up leaving till 3, and finally got home at about 10 pm. But after that it was pretty smooth sailing as I slept, played with my dog, and tormented my little brother for the rest of my incredibly peaceful Thanksgiving break. 

Couldn't have said it better myself

Only a day away from the Election, and things are heating up. It almost seems pretty rare to go somewhere and not hear people talking about why “Mitts the tits” or who Obama is awesome and deserves a 2^nd term. COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to watch a music video or some other satirical video on YouTube without having to sit through a mudslinging “He voted for this, he ignored that” Advertisement.  If you don’t vote for this guy, the country’s doomed. Blah blah blah. It’s almost impossible to tell exactly what a candidate stands for now-a-days just because every commercial or ad you see completely slanders the other candidate and their policies. The following is a quote of what my brother wrote on his Facebook, but completely describes how I feel about our government.

“I'm a bit tired of explaining why I didn't vote this past election, so here's my stance on the matter and I'll just leave it at that.

I don’t vote on the presidential elections because changing our president doesn’t fix any of the inherent problems of the government. Congress and Senate both still operate on an ineffective black and white, two-party system that effectively prevents any real progress. Additionally, between the presidential, senatorial, and congressional races, both parties spent over $6 billion this election. Where do you think most of that money came from? It came from large corporations sponsoring candidates. This means continued corporate influence in government regulation, and more policies that bend us over in favor for these billion dollar companies. It doesn’t matter who is president, the way our government is ineptly structured right now, it just allows for corruption and small glimmers of progress every decade or so. How is the presidential election so focused on issues like gay marriage and abortion? It’s the 21st century, the answers to these questions have long been established to the educated half of the population. Why aren’t they focused on issues like advancing science and education, taking corporate sponsorships out of political campaigns, removing the reigns of our economy away from a small handful of the population, and increasing green technology and ways to stop selling out the environment for big business. Why aren’t we discussing the real issues that can actually propel the country to the next level in this modern age? Instead, certain candidates and the corporate-fueled media have people distracted from the real issues, and have us focused on why it should still be legal to withhold rights from certain kinds of citizens. And unfortunately, most of America is too ignorant and uninformed to know any better. So they will elect a candidate who, even if they wanted to, is unable to make anything more than a few minuscule changes due to the blind and corrupted congressional pawns of the two-party system, and the same inherent problems of America will remain untouched. And when shit hits the fan, everybody acts surprised and blames it on the President, when in reality; it’s simply the inefficient workings of our government coming to fruition. So that’s why I didn't vote in the past Presidential election.” 

Video Games and Whatnot

**DISCLAIMER** AT THIS POINT IN THE SEMESTER I’VE RUN OUT OF IDEAS TO TALK ABOUT SO I MIGHT RAMBLE ON, SWITCHING TOPICS FREQUENTLY, WITH LITTLE TO NO WARNING WHAT SO EVER!!

I wish my life were a video game. Any game. All games. To be Master Chief killing aliens and stuff. Speaking of which, I’m pretty excited for Halo 4 to come out. I forgot the date it releases to the general population. What I do know however, when it does come out, I will not leave my room for at least 2 in a half days. This includes not going to class (sorry Saunders), not taking anymore horrible quizzes in the empo, or  anymore stupid pledge stuff they make us pledges go to. Like tomorrow, (Friday, Nov. 2) they’re making us go camping overnight… First of all, it’s going to be SOOOO COLDD!! Ugh, just thinking about it is making my body shiver. If only this was the worst part, yesterday (Wed, Oct. 31) they emailed this LONGG list of STUPIDDD things we all need to buy and bring by Friday, including 7 pounds of cookie dough, 80 hot dogs, an ax, a shovel, and muchhhh more I cant really tell you about because we’re so secretive. (Not really) I have no idea what the brothers are planning on doing to us on this trip, but whatever it is, no way is it good. AND THE COLD!!!! :’( ß (Sad face.) L ß (Better sad face) ((Forgot I could make an actual one.)) But back to the halo thing, in the end of Halo 3, John, AKA Masterchief, freezes himself on a spaceship floating out into space, and it leads you to believe he dies. So after Halo 3, they came out with one or two other Halo games without John, which honestly kind of sucked in my opinion. This is why I’m very excited for the fourth one, in hopes that this one will be good. They even made a live action series with real actors, which leads up to the beginning of Halo 4. I’ve only seen the first one, which is like a 20 min long video, and it’s actually pretty good. But it would be so awesome if my life really were a video game. To be able to take a test, fail, then just hit the reset button and redo it. Or whenever I’m talking to a really cute girl, and say something stupid where it would turn her away, I would still have two more lives where I can try again.