Getting Ready for Class/Finding the Way

When is the full moon? I thought it was yesterday, but then someone told me it was tomorrow. I was reading Thich Nhat Hanh "Understanding Our Mind" and everything he says seems to validate how I feel about the path I am on. Then I was going to send a friend a stupid e-mail and I had to delete it because it would have been in violation of the 8 rules or whatever (help me I'm a newbie at being a Buddhist.) But it felt GOOD! I was practicing right speech and at the time I deleted the e-mail I just knew that it could be hurtful, or at the very least casually cruel - spiteful. And in the middle of writing it, my dad logged on and accepted my invitation to g-mail so that we could chat. And even though my dad has this thing where he is the only person in the world sometimes that can make me cry, I also love him very much. And when we started chatting that was when I deleted the e-mail. And the passage that I had been reading was about being careful who we surround ourselves with which has been a big topic with me lately. More on that later. Thanks for getting on g-mail dad.