Today is what is known as Black Friday. The day when shops (sorry 'stores') open up their doors at ridiculous hours of the night and morning to the hundreds and thousands of crazy shoppers desperate for ridiculously cheap deals: 42 inch plasma screen TVs for $200, cheap xboxes and one friend's Facebook status even informed me that machetes were on sale in Walmart for $8 . Bargain. It is the day after Thanksgiving when the traditional Christmas sales begin and the gaudy light displays and decorations go up. The Co-op* has already started stocking up on UConn Christmas tree decorations - it wouldn't be a proper tree without some proper Husky pride of course! The name 'Black Friday' supposedly derives from the large amount of traffic and road accidents that were always associated with the shopping extravaganza but now people also use it to term shops' profits going "from the red and into the black". It is crazy. You will all be pleased to know that although my browser may have strayed onto the Forever 21 website numerous times in the past 24 hours, and I have filled my 'shopping cart' with several items of clothing, I never made it past the checkout point. How's that for self restraint?!
In the time that I haven't spent perusing online shops, I have instead been sat in UConn writing my bajillion essays and counting down until the end of term. For the past few days the campus has been completely dead and now people are slowly starting to trickle back in. It's strange and also quite nice; the peace and quiet means that I can actually wake up in the morning and do some work - not quite sure how that is 'nice' in any sense but you know what I mean. I know that I will of course get to the end of my week long break and feel that I didn't accomplish nearly as much as I could have, but hey ho that's life.
In the mean time it's back to Malcolm X and his very long and rambling autobiography. Oh the joys...
*The on campus shop that stocks absolutely everything from UConn dog bones to a new Apple mac - most exciting shopping experience ever. It definitely beats costies at Warwick!
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