dream of blue

There are certain points in a book where you are absolutely sure that you have picked a winner.

"I also discovered that the US government employed a 'deputy fish coordinator,' a marvelous title.)"

- My Life in France, pg 172


Oh Julia Child, I love you forever.

This reminds me- I need to look up the family crest.

I had thought that we had "wisteria," but apparently on Dad's side there's 九枚の笹　（きゅうまいのささ） (nine grasses)　(grandpa?) and 桔梗（ききょう）(chinese bellflower)(grandma???).

Not quite sure on Mom's although one of her cousins that mon are usually passed down through the maternal line, and we confirmed with her mother that SHE was an 揚羽蝶（あげはちょう） (swallowtail butterfly) which means that therefore grandma, mom, and I all share that crest.

WHICH LOOKS WAY COOLER THAN THE WISTERIA CRESTS, EVEN THOUGH I DO LOVE WISTERIA. ♥♥♥ (I also really, really love kikyo- icon related)

Downside is that "Ageha" is associated with a certain breed of kogal. XD

The girl who composed the soundtrack to Plants versus Zombies also has a cover of Ue wo Muite on her youtube account.

Which of course made me think of Lili Marlene.

And in the same genre, The Moon Represents My Heart.

Which reminded me that if your class is playing a round-robin game where the number of sentences the class says in Chinese equals the number of extra credit points the class will receive on their next test, that is NOT THE TIME TO ATTEMPT TO FORM COMPLEX SENTENCES, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE GOING TO STUMBLE OVER THEM.

(I generally fared well on oral language exams, even if my accent sucked.)


Anyway, in her blog, she said that she got her father to voice the zombies in the Japanese version of the ending theme- trying to imitate the voice of a game show host.

He didn't really sound like that, but I started thinking of the Cocorico "live on $100 for a month" segment (which wasn't so much of a game show as much as a "let's be mean to minor celebrities" sort of thing. I think it might be possible to make spaghetti carbonara entirely in the microwave, although the Parmesan cheese might be to expensive to use. (If you used a tiny bit of what they sell as cheese in Japan, you might be able to wing it.)

Ohhoho. I might need to watch this one.

(Note 1: The main characters names are Taka and Yuuji.)
(note 2: I sometimes watch "Partners" and I like it.)
(note 3: thank you karekano. I saw Partners and I was like I WATCHED THAT SHOW! <3)


Shige's going to be on that Suntory cooking show. I plan to watch it, even if the only beer I really like is Sapporo. (Hopefully I can find the episode somewhere. Although he's making eggplant pasta, and I'm not so sure about cooking with eggplant. Sure, I'll happily eat it, but frying it myself seems like a pain. I forgot who was guesting for that one, but the gyouza episode was fairly helpful.)

1 largish jar. (24 oz, wildflower, raw, from somewhere not that far from my house)
1 not quite as large, but not small jar (16 oz, macadamia, unheated/filtered)
2 bears (also macadamia)
1 bear (from texas. yeah, I don't know either.)

Just woke up.

I have no clue what's going on, but apparently school's canceled.


It will either be a very quiet day, or a very sucky day at work- I don't know which, but the electricity is still working which is always very nice.


I stayed up til 2, though. sleepy. ;-;



Ah, and someone thoughtfully posted about the saftey of various JE groups! Still no idea about that one newscaster's father, though- even though he said the dad lives on high ground, who knows. We were flipping through the channels, so I don't remember which one he was on. Which means I probably won't find out. :[

edit: just saw a time lapse of Kona. Wow. Nowhere as near as bad as it was in Japan, but it's really, really nice that we had a lot of warning.

The humpbacks were active today-

We heard one breach before we saw it.

It was a good day for whale-spotting.

So I've just gotten back from seeing Gantz. I was kind of annoyed, because I had intended to arrive early, but I only ended up being about 20 minutes before the start. (Luckily, I still ended up with a decent seat because I went alone.) I missed most of the pre-show, but the trailers reminded me that I need to sit down and actually watch the taste of tea.

Actually, funny story: I happened to mention to my aunt that I was going to a Japanese movie tonight. I told her that it was an action movie, and that one of the leads was in a boy band.

"Is it a five-person band?" she asked me.

It turns out that my cousin's wife also likes Arashi. (We called my cousin to see if they could make it, but it was very short notice and they already had plans. But the fact that my aunt made the connection- she knew Arashi by name- was pretty impressive. It was because of this year's Red and White, and they usually don't even watch it.)

( anyway, so about that movie. )

In television dramatizations, near death experiences are often characterized by a blinding light- a bright white that excludes all else.

I had one such experience the other day and it was terrifying.


Mind you, we had just come out of a tunnel and were cresting a hill and the sun happened to be at just the wrong angle that you really couldn't see anything at all for a few seconds.

And it was terrifying because at that time, we were on the freeway in a moving vehicle. (I am thankful that I was not the one driving.)