Okay day. Worked late. Had a nice dinner w/Srikanth.

Went home and did other fun things. Did do some good organizing things.

Had a reasonably good day. Felt a lot of stress - getting out email re: valence molds and so on. Did speak with Mary and had a reasonably good conversation. She's very nice and sounded stressed. She's studying to be a teacher as CSUN. She also has a guy in her life. I mentioned tennis and that's when she mentioned the guy. Made too many excuses for her not being good about keeping in touch.

Had a nice time w/Caroline Yeh and her friend Barbara. Barbara is a bit of a 60's lefty and lots of fun. Caroline is nice though a bit standoffish. Hard to read, really. Very very nice exterior disposition. Was embarrassed to run into Rick Matzner there. Should probably not have carpooled with her since I was in such a rush to leave.

Had a pretty good day yesterday. Went and saw Ana Marie Cox who was great -- refreshing, fun, entertaining, and inimitable. Never thought about the sociological side of Washington D.C. before. I guess she's the comic relief there. She did say that she feels more passionate when her side dissappoints her, which is true with me and Mickey Kaus (as he indicated).

Talked with Mary and agreed to call her Wednesday morning. That will work just great. She sounds so nice on the phone. Felt good that I was pretty comfortable (treated it as no big deal) calling her and talking with her. She's very cool.

Didn't have much time after Cox event. But it did help that I put together a schedule of things to do and I got most of them done and felt like I was hurrying to the next one each time which felt good (like I wasn't wasting time).

Did well on todo list as well.

Pretty good day yesterday. Did get lots done with my binder and projects and so on.

Had good session with Kupper. It was clear that I need to try my best a number of times to get my parents to accept responsibility for what they have done and how they have behaved. Until I try doing that a number of times (let's say 5), I can forgive myself and feel that I really did try and they just are incapable. At this point I still feel that they are capable of fessing up and seeing things my way. Their cop-outs like, I see it differently or that was so long ago or ... can't go unchallenged.

Did not get much done when went home. I guess I need to go back to doing much work in the car. Leaving lots for at home doesn't work very well.

Had a great Sunday.

Played tennis in the morning and got killed. I played so badly it was pathetic. I really need to work on my game if I'm to have any fun. Lessons or ???

Saw Robert P and spent the day at the Giants game. That was sooo much fun. We ate lots, I got an update on his life, etc., etc. We had some fun driving there and back and then we went separately to Heather's mom's house. Had fun there. Robert seems more out of the whole family situation than I had remembered. Heather looked great and seemed to be doing fine. The kids were great though they didn't seem particularly engaged / eager to talk with me. I felt terrible not to have a gift for them and didn't much like the flowers I brought.

Reasonably good Saturday. Had tutor get-together. Was fun, particularly with Judea. She's so cool.

Had discussion with Sarah, Matt, and Angela about Chandavan. Discussed what we could do if anything to make sure this didn't happen to our current kids. Agreed on trying to provide vocational -- getting into college, career stuff to them.

Saw the boys, Polly, Mom and Dad, Steve, Wendi, Yvonne, Danny, and Dylan. It was also nice to see Heidi and Joe. They're great. Their sons are named Connor and Nick. Polly was helping Steve setup his ipod. I helped point out that if the ipod is connected you can see it. As usual he didn't acknowledge something he had learned from me but I think it was key to get them to figure it out. I do communicate unusually well with Polly. This is so nice.