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Went to the Stanford PD seminar on Maintaining Hope. Had to get up early in order to be there by 8:30. I walked to the conference and back. It was held at a hotel that's about 0.5 miles from my apartment. I was probably the only person out of the 200+ attendees that walked. It felt good to have made the mini-trek.

The conference was inspiring. The keynote speaker was David Phinney, a professional cyclist. He told a story about never quitting. There were panels of people with PD and caretakers. There was also an interesting talk by a neurologist on the topic of wisdom and cognitive dissonance with PD. Overall, I'm really glad that I went. I gained some perspective on how I've been holding the fact that I have the illness. I've been doing a lot of wait and see instead of being more proactive. The event took up the entire morning. I came home tired and I ended up sleeping quite a bit in the afternoon. Starting to feel more back on schedule tonight.

Watched the movie Straw Dogs. An intensely violent film that seemed to me to be too pat, too contrived. It was a powerful film, but somewhat flat and drawn out in ways that would not really happen. The violent scenes near the end of the movie reminded me of Clockwork Orange with CO being the better version.