TRIUMPHANT RETURN!

Hey! Remember me?! Sorry I haven't written in ages. My excuses are split between doing my last bit of work I had for school and wanting to go to sleep early when I had work in the AM. But now I don't need to worry about school anymore. I finished forever. Yes, that's right. I'm done with college. It only took me four and a half years, but I eventually won that game. I took my last final yesterday. I knocked out eight quality essays, sold my books from the past few semesters, and then got the hell out of that school. Now I don't need to be back there until the graduation ceremony in May. Pretty exciting. Right, guys? Yes, it sure is. I think with all of this morning working I've been doing, I've started to develop a normal sleep schedule, and I'd really rather not do that. I don't like feeling really tired this early. Well I'm sure I'll be getting less hours at work once Christmas is over, so I'll totally be able to get back in the habit of going to sleep at 4am and getting up at noon. That's the sleep schedule for me. Speaking of work, I had a visitor today. I know what you're saying. I work about an hour away from where I live. Why would I be getting visitors. Well, I have friends all over this state and beyond. I'm a popular guy. But today Neil stopped by the ol' store, and brought me some Taco Bell! What a guy. He got me a Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito and some Fiesta Potatoes. He also loaded my bag up with Fire Sauce. So I ended up having a pretty great lunch. The only issue was the Taco Bell people forgetting to put a spork in the food bag. So I couldn't eat the Fiesta Potatoes until I got home. And as I found out, Fiesta Potatoes aren't all that great when microwaved. But that sure didn't stop me from going to town on them. Alright, let's do a recap of the past couple days.

To keep on the subject of food, I was woken up this past Tuesday by a phone call from my friend Anthony Depoto. And being woken up by a call from Anthony only ever means one thing. Lunch date at Century Buffet. Now we hadn't gone to Century Buffet since the summer, and since then, this fine Chinese eatery had transformed into Grand Century Buffet. For those of you who have never been to Century Buffet, it has about the worst food I've ever paid to eat, let alone paid to eat on a semi-regular basis. And as we soon found out, nothing had changed with the food since adding "Grand" to the name. They did make the place look a whole lot fancier, though. Most of the chairs still had the plastic covering on the seats that they were packaged with. But this place looked relatively fancier compared to what it used to look like. This, in a way, made the food taste worse. I guess that's a result of higher expectations from the nicer atmosphere, though. But even though the food sucks, I still piled my plate high. I had about eight or nine varieties of chicken on my plate. It was the worst. But I finished that plate, god dammit. I even went back for some chocolate soft serve ice cream. After that, Anthony and I headed to WCSU to see all of his old classmates. It was a lovely reunion, for sure. Apparently, we weren't done eating, though. We decided it would be a great idea to get some more ice cream. So we took a drive to Il Bacio, and had ice cream. I got some pumpkin ice cream with caramel, because I need to get in as many pumpkin flavored things as possible before they all go away. The rest of the day is all a blur. We went to East Coast Music Mall, the regular mall, and some auto shop where the employees did not want to sell anything ever. What a couple of sad sacks they were. But what a premium day it ended up being. I had plans to go home afterward and study for my Marketing final the next day, but that never happened. I'm pretty sure I killed it anyway, though. I am a pretty great marketer, after all.

Yesterday was another day where adventures started with food. AJ and I were discussing top secret plans over the internet, and somehow grilled cheese, tomato soup, and milkshakes got brought up. So AJ asked if I wanted to go get those food items right then and there. Now I had just eaten dinner, but I said "fuck yes!" Grilled cheese, tomato soup, and milkshakes is the best meal around. So AJ came to pick me up, and we decided that the New Holiday Diner would be a good bet for getting that meal. So we go there, and look through the menu. They don't have tomato soup, but that's also pretty tough to find in diners these days. Or at least I'm confident that none of you have any evidence to disprove that. But we were happy enough with the grilled cheese and milkshakes. AJ got a vanilla milkshake and a side of onion rings with his order. I opted for the chocolate milkshake and fries. I also got tomato on my grilled cheese in the hopes that it would at least make up for the lack of tomato soup a little bit. So while we're eating this delicious meal, the most absurd regulars keep coming in. These two people that came in, started asking if the staff could take a picture of them. It just seemed like such an odd request. Who wants to get their picture taken at the New Holiday Diner. It was bizarre. Then our waitress started talking to other tables about Gaylordsville. AJ and I probably wouldn't have thought twice about it, had she not kept repeating "Gaylordsville" over and over again. Then she started talking about how there's a place in Gaylordsville where a woman makes life sized replicas of people and animals out of papier mache. So after hearing a number of other oddball conversations, AJ and I decided to make our way out. But we also needed to know if this woman was batshit crazy. So we decided to take a ride to Gaylordsville to see if these papier mache statues were really there. This was made easy by the fact that this woman gave pretty precise directions to the place we were going. So we made our way to Gaylordsville and it turns out that this woman wasn't bullshitting us. There was a whole huge yard full of papier mache statues just chilling out. It ended up being pretty neat, actually. So I took a couple pictures, and then AJ and I made our way back to good ol' Danbury. From there, we played video games for a couple hours, and then I kicked him out so I could go to sleep.

Speaking of that thing I just spoke of, I'm going to bed. I've been falling asleep at the keyboard here. I need to work on that sleep schedule of mine it seems. There's no pride in going to sleep at 1:30am. But until then, I am off to bed. I don't think I'll have any time to write tomorrow, but I'm going to try and get back to a regular writing schedule soon. Look forward to it! And hang out with me, guys! I know you're home from break! See you soon, cool kids!