I awoke close to 9 o’clock after having decided to just wake up naturally – tomorrow will be more of the same. ;P Work was relatively lax today as I mainly caught up on email – a lot of discussions in the last week. I had my first session of Applied Algorithms today; I was a liitle nervous buying books and finding my way around UW – but everything went smoothly.
I had a wonderful time with Eriko. I suppose I should have written down everything we did on a daily basis because I don’t think I can recall. She has her license now and it was fun to ride around with her. Scary, but fun. We took lots of walks and just spent lots of time together. It was really nice. I saw her sing in concert, which was amazing. I love her more every day.
From where I sit, inside a lovely house in a lovely country that has recovered (but never forgotten) the American attacks, the only sign of a ravaged world is the news broadcasts which I cannot read or hear but understand all too well. I am embarrassed to be an American. I cannot walk with pride, for I do not believe my country is in the moral majority. I will forget all this soon, for Eriko will sing at a concert.
Four more days until I see my girl. I long to hold her. Work is going well, as are most things – if you ignore the fact that my country is about to make an extremely ignorant short-term move. Sure, we might get lots of cheap oil and artificially boost our struggling economy for a couple more years – but as someone wise once told me – when you cheat, you only cheat yourself.
