Back from LA... will post pictures later.
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone. (Although, I'm not sure if it starts today or tomorrow... my aunt was babbling on about how it technically starts tomorrow.) My grandma was so furious at my cousin because he wasn't able to get roast pork at the butcher's.
Back in lab... rejecting someone's manuscript for publication. I usually feel good about things like this, saying no to people, rejecting their attempts to seek my approval, but getting published determines these people's careers. Being in control of my own fate is hard enough as it is- I do not need to be an influence over other people's careers.
Dream last night involved my brother and me planning to live together in the Bay Area, and I had liver spots on my right forearm, which grossed me out.
Really nice day outside today. Another good compromise.
Yesterday on the BART, I was stuck sitting behind this Asian guy and a white guy. The white guy had blonde hair and blue eyes, the Asian guy was semi-attractive. They were arguing with each other, kind of like me and Drab. It was very spooky- the Asian even directly stated to the white guy that he was getting fat. "Your face is getting rounder." etc. I almost burst out laughing because it reminds me of the way I treat Drab. And then the white guy started kissing the Asian guy...
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HAHA re: that last paragraph...!
anyway, hi! so i'm throwing these dinner parties every sunday evening, and yesterday i decided to do a quasi-chinese new year theme. ridiculously outside of my comfort zone, yes, but i think you would have been proud with the resultant feast: my menu consisted first of a gigantic pot of a stir fry casserole with tofu/water chestnuts/baby corn/carrots etc and the most delicious broth (soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sugar, ginger and garlic, stock, cornstarch) and garnished with peanuts and cilantro. then i served green onion pancakes MADE FROM SCRATCH (i rolled twisted dough into snakes an tubes and god knows what else; apparently it was worth it, however, because one dinner guest told me it matched up in quality to fufu's...!), a cabbage/bok choy salad with chili powder/hot pepper, and finally beef skewers (perhaps not as authentic? but i wanted some meat on the menu and i have the most incredible source for grassfed beef) marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, ginger/garlic, scallions, sugar, lime et al -- which i also served as a dipping sauce for the pancakes) and an additional peanut-lime dipping sauce. oh, plus a gigantic amount of rice (we didn't have any white so i served a black variety instead: surpringly delicious despite being whole grain) and i think that's all? oh, dessert was again a massive ordeal, with homemade sesame balls that involved lots of sticky glutinous rice flour and intensive deep frying. i also made some chocolate cookies in case everything else failed miserably... because then, at least, attendees would have left happily bursting with butter and sugar. anyway, i emerged exhausted but victorious, mmm, and actually thought of you (scoffing, likely) at several times throughout the evening. longest comment ever? HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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