Blog from the very near past!

Hey y'all. I'm writing this at 11:49pm on Monday. Crazy, no??

I had this essay weighing on me for the past week, which I finished today. It's about Baruch Spinoza, the 17th century philosopher, and kind of why he differs from French philosopher René Descartes. I'm pretty happy with it- fingers crossed that my TA is also happy with it!

When I was like 75% of the way through, and kind of stuck, I had my computer read out what I had written, in its mechanical robot-y voice. It was pretty cool! It helped me find 4 or 5 typos, and it kind of make me realize where points were missing, or which sentences were extraneous, etc. Definitely going to do that again sometime (much to my mom's chagrin, who seemed to hate the voice).

I also finished this assignment that has to be done by Friday, so… ahead of the game! (Except that I'm behind on all the readings. All of them.)

In other news, I have a date on Friday. Like 99% sure it's a date. Dinner and drinks? Sounds like a date, right? It feels so grown-up, going on a date with a guy I don't even know that well. My dad said watch out for the date-rape drug so… I guess… uh I guess I will, but the guy seems nice. I guess it's always a good idea to be on the look-out for shady behaviour.

As most of you know (but Mars, I don't know if I told you this), I'm pretty committed to being single for second year. ("Single for Second Year" - it sounds nice. I should make buttons.) So as interested as I am in having this grown-up experience of going on a real date (like I said, 99% sure it's a date), I'm a little worried about how that will fit into my whole single thing, down the road. Not that I think I'm going to end up "going steady" (as they say in Archie comics) with this guy, but rather I worry about the precedent I'm setting for myself by agreeing to one date. Worries!

Worries shworries. I think I'll just try to enjoy it. :P

Miss you guys, hope to see you soon. Sari, you're back this weekend?? We gotsta hang out!

-Lee