As much as I love it up here, there are certain things about the South that even New York City in all its splendor can't provide. Let me tell you all what you should be thankful for when it comes to living in the South:

-Good Barbecue. The other day the dining hall had "North Carolina Barbecue." It was hardly barbecue, let alone North Carolina barbecue. You can't get amazing barbecue up here. I do love how my friends from places like Los Angeles, Oregon, Arizona and Illinois assume that I'm a barbecue expert because I'm from the deep South. They're darn right. When you say your prayers tonight, thank God for the widespread availability of good barbecue. It's a blessing in disguise, so don't take it for granted.

-Slow lifestyle. Even for those of you think you have a hectic lifestyle, hectic in the South is extremely slow compared to living in a northern city (notice I don't capitalize north, but I capitalize South). The South does have a much more laid back lifestyle that is conducive to working a vegetable garden or rocking in a rocking chair. Not up here...although I am appealing to our residential college Master to get a set of rocking chairs for Pierson.

-Biscuits. Seriously though. Once again, biscuits just don't happen up here. The only place I can get something that mildly resembles biscuits is at Popeye's chicken. Get this - the other morning the dining hall had a sign saying "Biscuits and Gravy," BUT THERE WERE NO BISCUITS TO BE FOUND. I'm not even saying they were out of biscuits or I just missed them. They literally had no biscuits in the vicinity. Oh, and to top it off, only one person I have met up here has heard of a chicken biscuit. They don't even know what a chicken biscuit is up here, haha. It kind of makes me feel bad for them.

With that said, I found out last night that one of my friends who lives two floors up from me plays the banjo, and another one of my buddies sings bluegrass music. In the next few days we're gonna get together and jam some...I'll break out the fiddle.

Oh, and the Navy PFA went great... I got excellents, which is well above what officers need to get. In typical Navy fashion, the chain of command decided this morning that in order to opt out of the tuesday PT, we need to pass the test not once, but twice. Not an issue at all, I've just got two more weeks of waking up early for PT. The good news is, I still get my paycheck since obama decided to keep paying the military. Now it's calculus time. Have a great day, y'all.

-Luke