• Met Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand on Friday while helping out Walter Bender give an update presentation on the OLPC project. It was a great honor for me, being of Thai decent.
  • Drove down to New York for one of my best friend’s graduation party. He just graduated from Art school and has a job with a company down in Atlanta, GA which does a lot of animation work for shows on the Cartoon Network.
  • Saw my first grade teacher, Mrs. Donahue at the party and told her she was the best teacher I knew. It is true. Where other teacher got fed up with me she could focus me and make me feel like I could achieve great things. I went to summer school with Mrs. Donahue because the principal thought my handwriting was atrocious. It still is, but look at me now. We discussed the first grade teacher who replaced her. A mean old Nun who you could hear yelling at kids and slapping rulers from down the hall. I knew a person who had her as a teacher. That person’s life didn’t turn out so well. Not making any concrete correlations but I see what I see.
  • Went to a one o’clock am showing of Knocked Up. It had some funny parts but the whole premise was just sad. Too heavy a subject to make a comedy out of. Most of the interactions between characters just seemed like they wouldn’t play out that way in the real world. Not that a movie has to be plausible to be good but this one just delved into some serious subject matter where it would seem to be important to keep some sort of connect with reality. In the end I just wasn’t able to relate to any of the characters.
  • Drove back to MA at 4:00 am. It was pretty cool to see the sun rise over the horizon just as I crossed from CT to MA. It did blind me for a bit which was not cool, but I got home safe.
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