Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Spring Break 08'

Spring breaks aren't a big deal for me, never have been. I haven't been on a vacation since i was 11 and Ive spent every spring break ever since i was 16 working. This spring break was different though.... well not entirely, i still planned on working a lot but at least i was going to get to travel to Ohio for a few days and get paid for it.

In the school textbook industry there are a few vital weeks that bookstores hate just as much as students, just in a different way. FINALS WEEK! This is when bookstores do about 90% of there book buybacks. Most of the time bookstores just buyback from their own university, but not my company. We travel to different university's and set up shop and buy books as an independent business - which isn't completely false.

Me and my manager 'Donkey' traveled to the LAGER university with their mascot named after a poisonous nut..... yes a poisonous nut. We traveled to Ohio State University, home of the Buckeyes. I show up there on my first official day of spring break just to have to maneuver my way around in over a foot of snow. During the 3 1/2 hour drive up me and Donkey noticed the snow became increasingly more. I didn't mind the long hours in the car with Donkey because he's a pretty cool guy. We shared some stories and listened to some music.

The rest of my spring break was spent playing Call of Duty 4 on X-Box live and working on a web page for my class - Check it out - i looks really simple but it took me a while to do all the PHP programming.

One last note - KENTUCKY GOT INTO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT - be ready for them to upset some teams. Don't forget about how they beat Tennessee and Vandy and Florida.

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