April 7th, 2003 yoshers
A very funny thing happened about a week ago. Spring arrived in Berkeley in the form of summer weather for two days; thus, I decided to bring out my summer clothes and put on some shorts. As I was doing this, I was thinking to myself, “I have been somewhat lazy lately, I have not updated my homepage for over a month; I have not done anything that makes me feel like I have accomplished anything.” I do not mean I have been lazy as I was before. I am having fun at work, learning whatever I want and setting up the new systems in a way that I feel is best. I have been keeping the house pretty clean and started yard work much earlier than last year. However, I have not done anything extraordinary and I really did not know the answer to “Why haven’t I done something interesting?”
And so, I continued to think, “My mother was always so driven and I could use a bit of that right now. She also knew what she wanted, even if those things were a little over the top.” And so I decided that I would do better in these areas even though I believe (and still do) that my mother’s example is a bit extreme for my tastes. As I was finishing my thoughts, I grabbed my green cotton shorts, I can hear something jingling in them…
Lo and behold, I put my hand into them and I felt my mother’s praying beads that I thought I had lost last October. Well, if this is not a sign (and you know how much I believe in these things), then there are no signs in this world. Of course, I still have my doubts…what a skeptic I am.
