Oh Geeze do I have to Create a Title???

First off, I thought you should know that I selected this "Georgia" font solely because I was born in the state of Georgia. I mean it's a nice font and all, but the niceness had no effect on my decision.

I had a pretty big test in my Corporate Tax class today, and it pretty much consumed all of my concentration for the day. In my next class (Cost Accounting) my attention span towards process costing was basically non-existent. However, our professor's examples of items that can be used for process costing sent me into a series of daydreams of past memories. For instance, she handed out tootsie pops, and I instantly recalled my very early days in Atlantic City where I would be watching Nickelodeon and the infamous tootsie pop commercial with the wise owl would come on. Ya know, when the kid would ask the owl how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie pop and he'd say "One, two, three CRUNCH .... three." Still don't know what I'm talking about? Well click on this. Man that was a classic. So yeah, I'm off in la-la land thinking about tootsie pops when we do a sample problem. The item that's being manufactured is teddy bears. Again my concentration on the actual subject in hand is thrown into a tailspin, and I'm again going back in time. This time I'm recalling my creative idea in asking a friend to the senior prom. Let me set up the scene. We were on a marching band trip touring Europe. At this point we were at Edinburgh in Scotland. We had spent this particular morning taking a tour of a HMS ship at one of the ports. There was a small shopping mall located right on the shore, so when we were done touring the ship we migrated to the mall. Since we were with the girls, we happened to stop at a store that was similar to a Build-A-Bear (who knows it might have been a Build-A-Bear for all I know.) So the girl I'm going to ask is looking around and finds a teddy bear that she likes. I decide that if she likes it enough I'll go ahead and buy it for her. It's at this point that I notice an area where you can record a custom message so when you squeeze your bear it plays your recorded message. Another observation that I made was that there was a Starbucks located just a few stores away. So somehow I convince her that while I go ahead and get the bear stuffed she and her friends should go to Starbucks and purchase some delicious Frapuchinos (I'm sure I didn't word it that eloquently.) So while she's away on a coffee mission I go ahead and put my master plan into action. Before I stuff the bear, I run to the recording area and recording the "will you go with me to prom?" message. I then quickly stuff the bear, all the while I have a friend acting as decoy just in case the girls return early. I get the bear stuffed, make the purchase, and give her the bear without telling her about the message that the bear had for her. I figure it would be better and more of a surprise if she figured it out on her own. Well, later on that day we're talking a walking tour of the Royal Mile, and as I'm walking and taking in the sights with some of the guys she comes up to me and says "Nice." So the next morning, as I leave our hotel room for breakfast I open the door to a door that's been covered in tin foil and has a clever message about foiling plans, but instead I'll say yes... boy that was a fun trip.

So yeah, that's pretty much how I spent my Cost Accounting class this evening. It's amazing what the mind can do.