I liked the little assignment that we had at the end of last class where we had to write a poem with only pleasure, or candy, and no medicine. I realized that it's really hard to do that! I ended up just writing a lot of words that make me think of happy things or things that I enjoy, because every time I started a sentence, it sounded like I was forming a thought which sounded more like medicine then candy. So I guess you can't have the candy without the medicine unless you really really work for it, and then, once you've worked for it so hard, you've probably had a medicinal experience in a way, an experience that was good for you, so it's impossible to have pleasure without value. That can be applied to life in general, also. Everything happens for a reason...But anyways, after getting only a little sidetracked, that assignment was an eye opener for me. I also agree that class outside was wonderful, but it's raining right now, so that might not be good tomorrow, but hopefully that'll make the classroom cooler! I'm getting nervous about having people read my poetry because I'm pretty sure it's very bad.