healthy, creamy, slightly sweet

 

1. Wash rice as usual.
2. Dice sweet potatoes into chunks. Avoid skewering any major and/or desired limbs.
3. Let rice rest for 10 minutes, adding extra 3/4 cup of water and potatoes.
4. Steam.
5. Eat as is or mash/blend swt potatoes with fork into rice until tinted orange.

The next day:

1. Oil pan
2. Spread rice evenly into pan, add a splash or two of barley tea/mugicha/boricha
3. Stir till absorbed, then mash down
4. Let sit 5 mins or until a nice crust forms on the bottom
5. Enjoy the fact that your life just got a little bit better.

I like this with tea eggs (茶葉蛋) and stewed beef/pork in soy sauce. But that's because it's the only thing I make that reminds me of my mom's cooking. Ahh...mom's cooking. Has the ability to make me miss it a lot, and then once I'm home, I'll be like can we go get some jia jiang myun from hmart? It's a mysterious thing. 

Retrospect

I'm so tired of waiting
For your sins to come along
If I said you're beautiful
I'd be wrong

Oh, there is nothing baby
When I look into your eyes
But you're so far between your little white lie

Maybe next time
We can both find someone to hold down
someone to hold down

Maybe next time
We can both find someone to hold down
someone to hold down


Anything worth having has a price. Je crois que tous les choses seront toujours amères, avec toi. Mais il vaut la peine. Je ne regrette rien, maintenant.

Simple things

Things to do when I get home:

1. The chicken and pizza place next to hmart.
2. Twilight princess. Stallord is going down, but man those zant heads are freaky.
3. Two words: emo bangs. no wait. 'fob hair'. No more of this conservative crap.
4. Reformatting my computer bc lawl surprise! Trojan.
5. Visit tech/roomies
6. Paint my nails black
7. JEANS. GLORIOUS JEANS. 
8. Vaccuum my room for spiders, make sure mom hasn't thrown away Giant Pikachu
9. Track down my brother. (He will have time for me, dang it! He will make it or I will be delivering epic Beat downs!) 
10. Zaxby's. 
11. Beanie hang out time. Complete with chinese newspaper runs at 10pm.
12. GUITAR
13.  
14. PIANO
15. LIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE

in no particular order. The last one especially is very dubious.

Things I will miss about Illinois:

• Doing thousand piece puzzles with my roommate
• Getting to learn about multibillion dollar technology (3 micron!)
• Drawing mario mushrooms on my cubicle magnets
• Proximity to Indiana, St. Louis, Chicago, etc
• Being given candy by people I don't know. wait...that happens no matter where I go.
• Church message == lying on the bed listening to Andy Stanley's podcast while drinking milk tea. 
• Business casual
• 3 words: chain link forging. 
• Peaceful saturdays with nothing to do but drink a cafe au lait with donuts
• Breakfast at 12, lunch at 4, dinner at 9
• Unrestricted access to pretty much every statistical package known to man. 
• Snow!!!

yeahp. 20 more days and I am outta here.

Fingers trace your every outline

This is so, so wonderful. From the jazzy strangely adorable accented singing voice to the reminds-me-of-bossa-nova guitar to the rapping that takes me back to Shinhwa, Sechskies and Drunken Tiger days. And who can forget JinuSean. +50 cool points, guys. Absolutely love it. 

lesson learned from a crappy day

• When your co-intern is really competitive, you cannot slip for one second. 
• It really sucks having to be polite to someone who is trying to sabotage you at nearly every turn. But you have to because that's just the nature of the job. And you can't walk away from it.
• Grow up and get over the awkward shyness. 

It's strange because in school, when you didn't like someone, you just stopped hanging out with them. But I guess it's important to learn how to deal with this sort of thing, right?

spn ftw

GOSH. I forgot how much I adore Supernatural. 

• writer: ooh.....well. this one's kinda different. like vonnegut different.
• dean (urgent): what, slaughterhouse five vonnegut or cat's cradle vonnegut?
• sam: *looks at dean incredulously*
• dean: ....what? 
• sam: nothing, nothing.

Brotherly love > Dean's pride!! Hello kitty bandaids! Castiel. If any show could pull off a scruffy Paul Walker-esque trenchcoat wearing angel, it would be this one. The way he can't interfere but when Dean threatens not to 'interfere' when the situation is reversed, he gives veiled help. In the form of LAWL not supposed to be doing this, but I need you. The slanted sideways look of Mutual Understanding just kills me. 

• dean: ok. so everything he writes about us somehow happens in real life. so we do EVERYTHING OPPOSITE today.
• sam: fine. we don't fight. that means you don't eat any bacon cheeseburgers.
• dean (disgusted): .....fine. i'll have a...tofu veggie burger.

When it comes, he takes a bite and goes dude. [beat] This is delicious. Tofu rocks! And then the waitress comes by and says 'oh sorry, I accidentally gave you the bacon cheeseburger instead.' She takes it away and Dean just looks at Sam like "O_O..." *IS MORTALLY OFFENDED AT HAVING BEEN TRICKED BY THE TOFU*

• castiel: you can't hurt him. he's a prophet.
• dean: what. 
• castiel: *shrugs* you should have seen luke. 

and yes. I would have to say the best line of the episode: 

"STOP. I AM THE PROPHET CHUCK. "

..."you've got to be kidding me." 

slow spinning redemption

I bought doughnuts today! Nothing can stop me now. Except for maybe a heart attack.

This is purely hypothetical, but has anyone ever tried to, um. Ride around in a laundromat drying machine? 

POLLEN. I spent yesterday wondering if I was getting sick, with all the sneezing and whatnot. And then I realized it was in fact the yellow SPORES OF DEATH. I'm not used to it being all tricky like this. In the dirty south pollen gets all in your face like O HAI i'm gonna cover everything in yellow bwahahahaa! Illinois is like you get snow. AND NOW FOR SPOREZ OF DEATH, SURPRISE LAWL. 

argh. I told my mom I wanted to get an apartment 2-3 years after I started working fulltime, and she got really sad. That's probably around 25...and rationally that's normal. But in my head I'm thinking, WHAT? That's only like 4.5 years from now. I'm too young for that. Us, self reliant? Come on, we can't even function normally now when everything's taken care of for us. Natural selection will kill us before we even step foot outside the door. Okay, exaggeration, but I don't even pass for pre-adult and I'm 20. I've got enough to handle actually trying to grow up, I almost wish I didn't have to worry about leaving my parents.

noticed today: everyone has REALLY BIG TRUCKS. seriously. srsly, they're like twice the size of regular trucks.