Three hundred and sixty five days

In the midst of my midterms, we took the time to halt for a moment and celebrate our first anniversary. C arranged for us to spend the day and the night at the historic l'Auberge Del Mar. I had an exam in Operating Systems during the morning. As I walked out of the exam, around noon, we prepared ourselves to leave campus and C drove us to a secret (to me, at least) destination, which turned out be the neighbouring beach town of Del Mar. We had a room waiting for us at this old, atmospheric spa/resort and spent the whole afternoon doing nothing together. Had champaign, rested, went for a sushi snack on the terrace across the street, walked on the beach. We had reservations for dinner at J.Taylor's restaurant and it was succulent: We had Carlsbad & Blue Point Oysters, Cured Hamachi with organic greens, rack of Colorado Lamb with spiced pepper jam and smoked tomato-rosemary glacé, Duck with figs and russian potato gratin and warm Chocolate Volcano cake ...

After dinner, we lay in the jacuzzi for an hour, what do you think ... It's off season, so we basically had the place for ourselves. The morning after, after a somptuous breakfast in our room we drove back to school and real life and all that. But, what a great break we got there!

Raccoons

Our first Nachos project in my Operating Systems class was due tonight, and we made it! We will see if it was right, but at least it seemed to be running. It spun off threads and waited on them to join, and created locks, semaphores and condition variables for use in critical sections, and did priority scheduling. We were done by nine, and C was waiting for me outside to walk me to the car. By the car, out on the parking, a whole family of racoons was sitting: Mom, Dad and two kids. They stared at us suspiciously. We had caught them at digging through tree bark and soil that had just been spread over the beds. We stopped and looked at them for a while, they were so pretty. Their eyes and their fur glowing in the moonlight. They looked so soft and cuddly, I could have wrapped myself up in them. They looked at us too. The young ones seemed a little startled and were trying to hide behind their mom, but when they spotted C pulling something out of his pocket they got all curious. They were probably hoping for us to have some food. Actually, they would hardly give us space to get into the car, once they realized we might be carrying something eatable ...

Drive-in Movies

I went to my first drive-in yesterday. We got home early, packed some cold lemon chicken and salad for a picnic, warm clothes and blanket, and took off to Santee to see the new Wallace and Gromit movie at the one out of two drive-in theaters of the San Diego area. We spread out in the bed of the truck to watch the movie. It was quite atmospheric. I could definitely do this again. And then, we will try to catch a double feature ...!