As I shared on twitter, I just had two weird dreams right before waking up. The first was that I walked on a very crowded street in Europe with one of my ex-wives to head to an entertaining place, might be an opera house or a movie theater. It might be triggered by the late night talk show on HBO in which several topics about Europe were discussed by the host I watched right before falling into sleep last night. Though the topics included current situations of migrants, the atmosphere in my dream was very harmonious. The second was that I was playing tennis with a person whose face wasn't visible to me because we were on a track for 100 meters dash by the side of a soccer field. It was a super long court for playing tennis. I hadn't gone out to watch lunar eclipse last night but just went out to watch the full moon in the sky, which was very bright but blood had faded.
On Sunday morning, I drove my van out of the garage at 7:30 and headed to gym to work out. It's sunny but a little bit chilly. Driving by the Christian Church by the intersection of North Road and Filbert Road, I could foresee many Christians would come to pray at 10:00 am.
Stopping by McDonald's to have breakfast, I saw a group of motorists riding their bikes towards the parking lot when I parked my car. Sitting at a small table by the window, I even heard their conversations. One of them was named Patrick as well, he probably was at his fifties or sixties and kept introducing his son to others. I didn't particularly pay attention to his son, so don't know his age by telling his appearance. It's a nice day, those guys must enjoy the rides. After it, I worked out my weekend routine: 1 hours on treadmill; 200 times weightlift; 10 minutes on bike. I felt very fulfilled at the end, especially I ate too many pieces of cakes last night for my son's birthday, sugar in my blood was needed to be shaken off. I saw a gal on a bike whom I played indoor soccer once or twice two years ago but didn't greet to her because she was talking to another gal then.
This Sunday was Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. As a matter of fact, my middle school advisor and classmates had greeted each other on Wechat since mid week last week. However, I hadn't know which day the holiday would be then. To film a clip for our family's celebration at the lunch table, I posted it on Wechat: my mom was still cooking then.
Since I was't in that clip, I selfied one to greet to my classmates. After posting it, I realized that I didn't wash my face after coming back from gym. It didn't really matter because those men and women grew up with me since 6 or 7 years old, some of them were our neighbors, so even had known me prior to elementary school.
Why we had Festival celebration at lunch instead of dinner was that my son would go back to his dorm. On the way I drove him there, I advised him to focus on three things in the new quarter: Study and workout effectively, both are equally important and have to be balanced very well. Then socializing if he has enough time and energy. His current plan is to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Economics, which most likely will lead him to apply a PhD program eventually. After successfully completing Math 125 and Econ 300, he would be able to finish Math 126 and Econ 301 next quarter; In Spring, he can wrap up the last required course - STAT 311 to be ready to apply the major before the 2nd Friday in Autumn Quarter in his Junior year. Meanwhile he can select a higher level writing class in Spring to enhance his writing skills for Writing Assessment, which is also required to take before the application. Since he enrolled UW, I found his writing abilities had been improved significantly after successfully earning the good grades in English and social science courses including both Econ, Philosophy and Psychology. Graduates of College of Arts and Sciences are required to earn credits in foreign languages. Since he had confirmed his interest in going to Sweden for Study Abroad, I recommended him to take Swedish 101 through 103 in his Junior Year. He can go to Uppsala in his Senior Year for an entire year then come back to UW to get the degree by enrolling one more quarter. Though most of classes are taught in English but those for Economics are in Swedish at Uppsala. Stockholm University is always an option but he prefers a smaller neat town atmosphere. Of course, if he decides not to study abroad, he can always earn credits in Chinese, which had been his first spoken language for 12 years or French, which he earned 2 years high school credits. He sounded agreeing to all these recommendations. He actually would buy the textbook for Econ 300 later. He actually doesn't need to buy the access code of Webassign for Math 125 because the one for Math 124 he already paid for in last quarter is carried over. It looks like the only cost is for that Econ book in this quarter.
Dropping him off, I sped up on I-5 to head home to catch Seahawks' home opener on TV. I seemed having plenty of time because the game wouldn't kick off until 1:15 pm.
Lynch was not energized to start today. Was he mad because I supported Huskies to beat Golden Bears so passionately yesterday? CAL was a better team yesterday and Lynch is still a Beast anyway. I heard later the official reason for his lack of enthusiasm was driven by hamstring injury. However, my focus in this afternoon was Sounders taking SKC in Kansas City because it's a more critical match for MLS playoff berth. Pineda set a 45 degree overhead pass to Martins to score and Dempsey missed two one on one scoring opportunities, one was crossed by Valdez, another was passed by Martins. At the end, we were lucky to get a draw away from home.
Chicago Bears are being restructured under new coaching staff, it's not a surprise for Seahawks to shut them down at Century Link Field.
After a brief dinner, my dad asked me to watch a Chinese program for Mid-Autumn Festival celebration on TV in their master bedroom. Though I had planned to do it, I changed my mind after noticing that Exodus was being played on one of HBO channels. I missed watching it in theater last year. The movie seemed based on the story of The Books of Moses, I pulled the book from the shelf, then read the related parts while watching the movie on screen.
The movie triggered me to recall that the first time I learned "Exodus" was through a piece of music on radio in 1977 when I was 11, of course, I learned the title of the music in Chinese translation: 出埃及记。
Back then, I felt this piece of artworks was so amazing. At this moment after I listened to this version, I am still impressed.
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