Thanksgiving = Success!

I was fortunate enough where I was able to have 10 days off for Thanksgiving!  Really, I just got lucky.  Originally, I was looking for flights home the Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  Thank goodness I checked my syllabi.  My Wednesday class is at Boston College and they had no classes the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  For my Tuesday afternoon class, I had an online exam, so there was no need to be at school for it.  Furthermore, my Tuesday morning class was canceled because my professor would be at a conference in Atlanta.  I decided to skip my Monday class and since I have no class on Fridays, I got to fly home the Thursday before Thanksgiving!  And that saved me $200 on a plane ticket!

Visiting Perry in St. Louis!

On Friday, I drove up to St. Louis to visit Perry.  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I had come out at midnight that morning.  Perry bought us tickets! So we went on a nice date, then we went and saw the movie with Ted and Maddie.  I hate the Harry Potter movies.  I always feel like they are poorly made and usually just two minute summaries of every chapter crammed together.  I realize I should appreciate them as a movie without comparing them to the books.  But honestly, I have no idea how people who have never read the books follow the movies, especially if they haven't seen all the movies.  But, this HP movie was great!  I loved it!  The past three have been made much better!  And since the last book is broken into two parts, they don't have to cut so much out.  I wouldn't mind seeing it again!



The next night I went to the Alpha Phi Omega formal with Perry.  It was great being back at SLU seeing lots of friends and familiar faces.  The dance was downtown at a nice hotel.  It was a blast, which I would have expected nothing less!  The following evening we had dinner with Perry's family which was kind of a Thanksgiving dinner.  It was delicious, of course!

When I got back to Memphis, I had to study for my online paleography exam.  I silenced the entire house for two and a half hours so I could focus (thanks, Mom!).  I got an A, so that was very exciting! And then Perry drove down on Wednesday for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was also great in itself.  The whole family came over on Thanksgiving.  We had I think twenty people there.  It's always great when we all get together.  I can't wait for Christmas!

Oh and we finished the break with Brooke, Gary, Amber, Tommy, Perry, and I winning third place at Swanky's live trivia night.  Nothing like some margaritas and trivia.

I'm currently in the middle of finals.  Well, officially, they start on Monday.  This past week was our "reading period," so there was no class.  I finished my Gandhi term paper and take home final for Early Christian Thought.  I have a Christian architecture final on Wednesday and a Paleography final on Thursday, as well as a project for that class and then I'm flying home on Friday.  I can't wait!  I'm already anxious!