just got home from a day at maribel's house. first, her daughters cynthia and samantha and i played--they showed me their room and then they resorted to fixing my hair. then, we ate...chicken enchiladas and rice--YUMMY!!! maribel is a superb cook. her husband came home...cynthia and sammy were laughing throughout dinner... then, we watched mulan...it was the first time i've seen it. it was a good movie. sammy wants to be a little chinese girl because of it. finally, maribel and i sat down to work on some statistics (the reason i came over in the first place) and worked on chapters six through eight. she's finding that it's easier than it looks like to begin with--the same as with most of my other students who try to make it harder than it really is. well... we tired of stats so we took a look at her computer and i showed her how to scan pictures then email them, set her mic up, then tried to install her cd creator software which didn't allow us to install... hmmm... i never claimed to know a lot about computers. anyways, by this time it was about midnight, so she drove me home and now i'm up here on my dear 'ol computer that i love oh so much. it is almost one... i'm not sure when i'll get to sleep, and i feel like going downstairs to get something to eat. last night i had some crazy dreams... perhaps amir is right about dreaming after eating late. oh well... i actually like to dream. sometimes dreams are the only place we can truly have what we've always wanted. please take a number....