good question

and i dont even really have an answer for it...

i look at someone like you julie whose parents raised you completely differently and i think you know what maybe if my parents were more lenient it would have been nicer/better...but then i realize that there are soooo many people (your brother even as an example) whose parents tried being lenient but it just didnt work out as nicely as you...and the same goes for me - there are a lot of kids out there who were rasied without anything to worry about, definitely having everything you needed and within reason having everything you wanted as well, and i think sashank and i didnt take advantage of that to the point of not trying hard in school not working hard for what we have now, we definitely could have and there are a lot of kids that that do that (or even if you take the studying hard out of the question - look at metzger...)

so i dont think id change the way i was raised - if i could change something about the way i was as a kid i would be less defiant, and definitely less dishonest - i used to lie all the time to get out of trouble and i used to make my moms life a living hell until i was 18...id change that :)

im in a good mood too :) im having lunch with a friend of prashants friend :) seems distant but the guy was realyl cool the first time i met him - just a friendly get together.

and im all caught up!! it feels good....