Thanksgiving This Year

My Thanksgiving typically involves me traveling up to Columbus, Ohio to visit with a few of my close relatives, eat until we puke (then maybe eat again), and speak nothing but Greek for an entire seven days. Sounds fun, right? Not this year.

Not to say that I didn't enjoy my Thanksgiving this year, I was very appreciative of the break from the stress and weight that school and other social activities bear on one's spirit. However, I didn't quite get the treat that I annually get come the last Thursday of November. See, this year, the majority of my family decided to go down to Florida to be present for my little cousin's baptism into the Greek Orthodox Church, leaving me and my family behind to have our own little Thanksgiving. Again, it's not that I didn't enjoy Thanksgiving this year, but it gave off a very empty feeling for the first time, and that feeling wasn't quite too comfortable.

Being with only my dad (who had work for a considerably large portion of the break) gave me quite a bit of downtime to reflect on what I'm doing and where I'm going with myself next. I'd like to say that it was all really happy thoughts about achievement and success, but the truth is that it wasn't. I thought long and hard about major mistakes that I've made in my life and what I can do with them.

On a positive note, my family returns on Monday night, so while you guys are all doing homework, I get to experience a very late Thanksgiving dinner and come to school on Tuesday about ten pounds fatter. I'd say that's a plus.