Life in New York

Well...there are a few awesome qualities I have noticed about Syracuse so far.

First off, you know those rednecks who drive those giant, american-made, pickups plastered with stickers that date as far back to Bush (first time elected) all the way to the inane bumper stickers supporting people like Sarah Palin?...Well today I was behind one of those trucks but it was littered with Obama stickers.  I was alive with happiness in my car and gave the gentlemen a well-deserved thumbs up.

Secondly, I found the supermarket that I will be using for everything here.  PRICE CHOPPER.  It is the most amazing chain of supermarkets ever...EVER.  "What makes this place of purchasing groceries so much better than any other you have found before it," one might ask.  Well you know the 10-20 items (depending on the store) or less signs that are up in every damn store?  They are all incorrect, and being the intelligent person that I am, I know that the sign should correctly say "10 items or fewer."  It should say that because the word "less" should be used only of uncountable things.  To make it easier...things that can be measured, but not separated into discrete units.  For example:  there is less brain activity in Sarah Palin's noodle than inside that of a toaster strudel, or it takes less gas to run that car.  "Fewer," however, almost always follows the rule of usage for counting of items.  For example:  there are fewer cars in that parking lot, or there are fewer teeth in a person from West Virginia's mouth as opposed to a normal person.  The point I am trying to make is that Price Chopper uses correct grammar on the permanent signs they have hanging over their registers; therefore, it is only logical that I can assume someone working for them is educated and is deserving of my money...in order to undoubtedly pay back the mass of students loans that he/she probably has.

And thirdly,  There is a really super cool comic book store here.