10:18 Late Monday Morning (2 February 2009)   Oh the Sun Will Come Out The inversion has crept back into the valley. I watched it forming on Friday; it wasn't so thick and I could see the bands of clear air in the layers of pm2.5-laden gas. We're advised not to exercise too much or go running outside because then we'll breathe harder and more of the air will enter our lungs. there's a decent decrease in the pm2.5 concentration when you go indoors, but I feel my air passageways constrict when I jog to class. I had a thought but it went away. I managed to pull a 94% in my toxicology exam. I am pretty pleased about that. My studying (I did actually study) paid off. I also managed to complete everything I needed to complete last week...and then some. except Caleb's birthday present. Steve gets home on Friday. He sounded a bit sad in his last correspondence to me which I received in early January. He wrote me, "I don't know in what part of the world you'll be in or what you're (sic) last name will be, but until I see you next, [japanese characters here]. I don't know how to translate that very well and my handwriting is terrible, but rest assured it just means I didn't know how to finish that sentence." Caleb helped me translate it (he still knows some hirigana from when he was taught Japanese in year 9). roughly, it seems to be a polite form of "please." can anyone tell me what he means by that?