Journal writing is a very good means of procrastination.

Back from Metaphysical stuff... I'm embracing this illusion temporarily. I love Stanford. I love Parents Weekend. I am so thankful for Mommy.

I love little flowers. And cute random squirrel actions.

I love econ! A 95% on the midterm before curving! Wow! I've never gotten so high a score on a midterm! AND the SEA gives great lunches at the Faculty Club! I sat with Professor Gavin Wright. Yay! Good food! AND I've gotten encouragement and prompting to join the SEA sometime... maybe. [Editor's Note - K@ joined SEA sophomore year]

So I didn't do too bad on the CS midterm either - despite realizing I had 2 bugs in the programs I wrote and not decomposing Karel the Robot program enough... ABOVE the mean! And not just that... 89/100... An A! Good enough for me! Not like when I was a crazy A+ seeker in HS (Ahem, like you know who you are ;oP)

That only leaves argumentative SLE paper - something I find incredibly difficult to do. This rules out Law School. Sorry Buddy, Genna, Haley and any that I had once mentioned doing Corporate Law to. This struggle is like that of Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra. Reading is fantastic! But writing.... hard! Very!

*~*~*~*~*~Parent's Weekend*~*~*~*~*~*~

I had quite an adventure yesterday at�my grand aunt and grand uncle's�house. We were supposed to go out to eat dinner but my grand aunt surprised us by serving us a sumptuous dinner! She is a fantastic cook! Pheasant, squash (and some other spices) soup,� baked cauliflower with cheese/onion, baked eggplant and red peppers, and grilled polenta. THEN dessert was chocolate souffl�!!!! Not only that, but she gave me red wine and Chinese tea. I must say I enjoyed the tea much more - but it was so weird. Alcohol and Caffeine? My central nervous system must have gone out of whack. Anyway, I went to sleep at 11 pm� 11 pm!!! That was fantastic! Although not early�enough to completely erase my sleep debt - as I noticed during Dr. Dement's class today.

Mommy�wants to come for Admit Weekend too. She likes going to class.�She was really glad she could see what CS class was like.. but then today I had to explain pointers and arrays to her. I think I like Parents Weekend. It's so nice not to have to call/email my mom but be able to talk with her and get her perspective anyway.

Lunch @ FloMo - ok food - Stern would have better because when we got back to FloMo from Stanford Shopping Center.

Dinner @ Bella Luna after a huge thing about where to eat. And THEN we walked around University Avenue to check out other restaurants. Service was definitely not as good as Stern's SYR event.