1. This afternoon's critical decision: tea or hot chocolate?

2. Though the streets of downtown Berkeley are soggy with our first autumn rain, they still throb with life: women in stylish wool coats and boots, teenagers sharing pizza out of cardboard takeout boxes, canvassers and vendors, etc. I am reminded of London.

3. Running into a classmate on the street

4. Bringing home the two videos Sugar has been patiently waiting for in the library hold queue. He will be so happy.

1. Eating rice with a spoon reminds of my childhood, when I didn't quite have the manual dexterity for chopsticks

2. At Half Price Books, browsing through Japan Through John Lennon's Eyes, a book of sketches done by John Lennon illustrating various Japanese phrases and words

3. Overhearing a conversation between two women in their late 20s reminiscing about when they were undergrads at Cal and thought everything about Berkeley was so "cool" because "it wasn't like high school"