Monday, January 30, 2006

I Love Fried Rice

Yesterday, as we all know, was the Lunar New Year (aka Chinese New Year). My friend and I decided to go to a potluck sponsored by the Association of Asian American Graduate Students (AAAGS). It was awesome! We opted to make both vegetarian and chinese sausage fried rice.

Initially, we argued a bit about the ingredients. The fried rice that I've made usually has chicken or bbq pork, but chinese sausage was a fair (if not better) substitute. My friend loves to put ketchup in her fried rice (she argues that it's the secret ingrediate to all great fried rice).
"Ketchup?? I've never had ketchup in my fried rice!"
She then responds, "Ketchup is what makes fried rice red."
"I've never eaten red fried rice."
"Well, ketchup also makes the fried rice tangy."
"Uh. . . I've never eaten tangy fried rice."
You can see where this conversation was going. . . In the end, I relinquished to ketchup. . . It tastes good, yet very different than the rice that I'm accustomed to.

So, we make two huge batches of this fried rice -- one with chinese sausage and the other without. Everyone at the party loved it. However, not as many people showed up to the party as we expected. So, we now each have one gigantic bowl (and I mean GIGANTIC) of fried rice that will last for many days (possibly weeks!). All in all, we had a great time meeting the Asian Americans in our local community. Everyone is a fantastic cook! Yum!

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Happy New Year!

Let's get this party started!

Friday, January 27, 2006

I'm in the wrong business!

Yesterday, a friend and I were chatting about people we knew in fashion and/or interior design. She mentioned that one of her friends took a pop-up book class from the Stephen Greenblatt of pop-up book authors. . . All they did was make pop-up books!

I'm ridiculously jealous. . . of course, if I were majoring in pop-up books, I'm sure that I would find a way to intellectually terrorize it and make it "not fun."

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Momentum is not. . .

... absolutely necessarily. . . Not right now, anyway. I'm just hours away from putting the finishing touches on my last paper from last semester. Yay, big procrastinator me, yay! I know that the momentum of the end of the term is exciting and loads of fun (har har har), but I don't think a slow pace when you're not under pressure makes my papers any worse. They seem to be a little more methodical. . . something that you can tongue and melt in your mouth, rather than biting straight away. . . I don't know. I think providing myself a good 2 weeks per paper seems to do the trick. Of course, the hard part is trying to actually find a full 2 weeks per paper to provide myself. Sigh.

Another nice thing about this semester is that I don't really have an emotional attachment to anything we're reading yet. Now, that is very interesting. . . I find that having no attachment to your topic (you neither like it or dislike it) makes it so much easier to write. Ultimately, I can be super objective about the work because I don't feel anything for it. Quality goes up as my expectations go down. . . quite ironic!

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

From a friend on myspace!

Oh Dave, you silly girl. . .

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Jasmine

You're the girl who has everything but is still desperate for the thing she cannot have, love. Jasmine first wandered onto our screen in Aladdin (1992)

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Back to School

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. . .

Actually, it's not. Today is the first day of the spring semester. I have one class in the middle of the day, but I still insisted on waking up early (well, early for me), trying out my new system of studying (well, sorta), and going to campus early for homework purposes. We'll see how it all turns out.
I hope everyone had a great set of holidays recently. I'm really excited forChinese New Year. . . This year pretty much sucked the big one.

I'm also including a ridiculously cute picture in this post: The well-known hippo-tortoise surrogate mom family:


I can't recall where I snatched this picture from, but I think that I found the story from Boing Boing.

Sunday, January 01, 2006

What to look forward to

Happy New Year to all. Here are some things to look forward to in the new year:

  • I don't have to write, edit, review, or present any Masters Projects
  • No long distance moves across the state of Iowa or Nebraska
  • No more Colorado conservative politics for me
  • The comeback of moon boots
  • No more Atkins diet stigma
  • A DVD burner and a 250gb hdd!
  • A new mattress to sleep on
  • Another new semester (haha. . . devious laugh)
  • No longer the newbie (again)
  • I can finally wear legwarmers without shame
  • Same thing with Ugg knockoffs
  • MySpace and Facebook taking up all my time, along with Spider Solitaire (the old standard)
  • The George Eliot Support group supporting itself with something other than George Eliot
  • More Knightlys than D'arcys (or even more Crawfords or Tilneys)
  • Doing things "doggie" style (dog being the new Chinese year)
  • Taking incompletes without that "incomplete" stigma
Adendum coming. . .