Tuesday we had to demo and turn in our Antichess game. In the end I was happy with how it came out (happier than I've been about any of my other assignments in that class--- I just got back my last problem set that cost me many nearly sleepless nights, and for what? A 30...), and it was such a huge relief to turn it in. Afterwards, Lindy, Vikki, Sarah and I ordered pizza from Beauty's Pizza (I had never heard of them before). It was really tasty and they had many interesting toppings (artichoke hearts, clams. . .)


I will be working this summer in Mountainview, California, for Silicon Graphics. Designing microchips (6.004 stuff). I'm a bit nervous, to be honest, because all of the classes that I've taken this semeseter have given me more difficulty than any other classes I've ever taken. I've never been so unsatisfied by my work before. So I will have to do a lot of studying before I move out there. I'm living alone in an apartment nearby my work.


Brett and I have a new idea for a project--- a 3D short animation. We sort of have a story line, and I got clay to model the center character... I'm excited about it.


I watched a movie over the weekend about a French teacher whose school was from kindergarten to middle school--- he taught all the classes. His youngest students just learning to count and read. It was a documentary--- but they had worked with the children to make them act as naturally as possible--- not the obnoxious way little kids usually act with cameras around. And they were soooo cute! There was this little girl who couldn't remember the number seven. The teacher would count with her until 6 over and over, and ask her for the next number, and keep telling her it was 7. . . And the other little kids whispered to each other, "We have to help her--- it's 7!" What else was there? Oh--- one boy who was working on his homework with his mother at the kitchen table--- that eventually attracted all the members of the family--- dad, uncle, brother too, and when each asked him to do the problem again because they had a different answer, the next one would think that answer was wrong too. ^_^ People are funny. Kids are cute. These are the rules of life ^_^


I won't see Brett this summer--- he's planning to stay in Boston, maybe take a Japanese class at Harvard so that he can take it with me in the Fall ^_^. But I'll miss him. . .


Off to enjoy one of my last few nights here. . .