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Am back from Houston...
...and the cat is very happy and much more talky than usual. David Sedaris was funny, and he read all new material, which I wasn't expecting, so that was quite a bonus. The Shaolin Warriors were martial artsy, of course. Not that I hadn't seen those sorts of moves before, but it was nice to see them live so you knew for sure that there weren't any camera tricks or wire work.
Random notes from the weekend:
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mothoc and emtigereyes for lunch on Saturday.
--I made a mostly-improvised dinner of chicken & mashed potatoes on Friday night. Chicken was browned-then-simmered chicken breasts with lots of sauce made of some sort of miniature onion, chopped portabellini mushrooms, chicken broth, flour, butter, and lemon juice. Potatoes had small amount of garlic in them, along with heavy cream (for the hell of it) and butter, and leeks that had been chopped up, sauteed, then sweated until soft. It was a rather monochromatic meal, but it tasted good.
--Entertainment consisted of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and episodes 1 & 2 of Dexter.
--Well, and a hot-seat game of Civ IV. :)
I am now very sleepy from getting up early to drive to College Station to spend some time with my mother and giver her the Japan souvenirs I'd bought for her (hanks of silk yarn, woven-silk coasters, notecards with old weaving patterns on them, and a ball of fluffy silk remnants or chenille-type stuff that the proprieter of the store gave to me saying "My gift to your mother. Very difficult to weave, but maybe she will try."
I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to have for dinner. Oh well.
And I hope against all hope that the final panel in this week's Bleach is true and not a hallucination or Ichigo's inner representation of his strength (which has happened before) or something, because currently it almost redeems the ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that has been happening for months now.
Random notes from the weekend:
--Also met
mothoc and emtigereyes for lunch on Saturday.--I made a mostly-improvised dinner of chicken & mashed potatoes on Friday night. Chicken was browned-then-simmered chicken breasts with lots of sauce made of some sort of miniature onion, chopped portabellini mushrooms, chicken broth, flour, butter, and lemon juice. Potatoes had small amount of garlic in them, along with heavy cream (for the hell of it) and butter, and leeks that had been chopped up, sauteed, then sweated until soft. It was a rather monochromatic meal, but it tasted good.
--Entertainment consisted of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and episodes 1 & 2 of Dexter.
--Well, and a hot-seat game of Civ IV. :)
I am now very sleepy from getting up early to drive to College Station to spend some time with my mother and giver her the Japan souvenirs I'd bought for her (hanks of silk yarn, woven-silk coasters, notecards with old weaving patterns on them, and a ball of fluffy silk remnants or chenille-type stuff that the proprieter of the store gave to me saying "My gift to your mother. Very difficult to weave, but maybe she will try."
I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to have for dinner. Oh well.
And I hope against all hope that the final panel in this week's Bleach is true and not a hallucination or Ichigo's inner representation of his strength (which has happened before) or something, because currently it almost redeems the ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that has been happening for months now.
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Ahh, yes, monochromatic meals. You could have added cauliflower, and then it would have been an even more nutritionally complete and yet still completely monochromatic! I sometimes find myself actually changing which veg I will make to avoid this phenomenon ... it's an obsessive-compulsive thing to do, but I think a Japanese chef would understand. Your chicken dish sounds good, though.
Oooh, Shaolin Warriors will be playing in our neck of the woods as well, but I doubt I'll be able to see them. :-( I was admiring their ad in the Post.
How did your mother like the stuff from the Japanese weaver? I enjoyed that story in your trip diary.
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If you can manage to swing them, the Shaolin Warriros are great; if not, they should be by again within a couple more years: they've hit DFW three times in the past 5 years. XD
She really liked it. A bit intimidated by the hanks of silk, since the yarn is very fine, but as I told her, I picked stuff that she could gift on to others, since I didn't have much of an idea of what yarns she really likes to weave. :D She said she'll put the yarn aside until she feels ready to tackle it. XD
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If it ends up being a hallucination, I will have to kick things. And perhaps take a long break from reading the series.
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What bores me about this arc is that it's a much more straightforward rescue the girl scenario than the Soul Society arc ever was. And for that reason, the fights don't really accomplishing anything. Ichigo isn't really learning about himself; we aren't getting interestingly ambivalent characters. At least the SS arc had some mystery even when its pacing was at its worst.
I hope the rescue squad drags Ichigo and company back to Soul Society or the living world so Kubo can do something with the 8 MILLION PLOT THREADS he has up in the air (the daddies, the other Karakura students, the Vizards, blah, blah, and blah).
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(Meanwhile, my new fluffy shojo darling Love*Com has sped through a year and a half of RT by the third volume. WHAT THE HECK, MANGA.)
*not including time travel, or angsty Uchiha flashbacks
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I'll track down exactly where they set foot in Hueco Mundo - somewhere between 150 and 238, I think - and work out how many chapters that is and ask on LJ. XD
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There was some speculation on one of the Bleach comms about whether Kubo Tite was gearing up for a special chapter for 300. Nobody had any answers.
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