Squash & philosophy

I cooked some butternut squash today, mashing it & stirring in some maple syrup. It's one of those dishes that I'd never eaten until after I started school at UW. My former landlady Betty Ann introduced me to it & I now try to make it at least once every term. Usually, I use 3-4 squash & it lasts me about a week.

The other event of note for today is that I finished reading Sophie's World, which has taken me about 5 weeks of irregular reading to get through. What a book though! I'm exceedingly glad my sister cajoled me into reading it just before I left TO. I heartily recommend it to anybody with a casual interest in philosophy who also enjoys reading. I recently purchased a book called Barbarians led by Bill Gates from Amazon after reading a glowing appraisal of it on James Gosling's home page. I think I'll read that next.