Some top friends on Facebook have dysentery.

According to the new Oregon Trail Facebook application.

It is a throwback to the pixelated game you reminisce about from elementary school -- playing it on a crappy Mac your school got for free. Always a treat.

Who got bit by a snake? Oh no,  tell me I did not just lose all my supplies crossing the river.

Needless to say, Facebook stays strong during the holiday break.

Although other activites replace much of the time otherwise spent ignoring homework on the social, yet oddly anti-social website this break.

Things like working full time, staring intently at relatives, watching a gross amount of films and of course picking up hookers and drugs in countries with looser morals (another way of saying vacation).

Not to point out any specific countries that would fit this description, but one small example might rhyme with the "Metherlands" and have a notorious redlight district in a capital that rhymes with "Mamsterdam". 

What could be better? Whittling away time, ignoring the impending spring semester,  yet at the same time, anxious to hurry back to the escapist rhythm of school.

It's a beautiful energy to mark off the end of one year and the beginning of another.

There is so much to look forward to, so many resolutions to break after New Years and so many rants to spout about and read on OTR.

Goodbye Andrew Meyer's tasing and everyone becoming an honorary VT student for a month. Goodbye  collapsed bridges, 24 hours of Anna Nicole Smith and California on fire (wait are the fires still happening?)

Looking forward to a world with Jamie Lynn Spears' child and a gazillion more Facebook applications to muddy up everyone's pages.

Like the oxen in the Oregon Trail, we will trudge on.