Hello! I exist! Just thought I’d verify that fact, since I’ve been absent for about… three weeks… but I wrote three posts last time, so maybe that makes up for it? Sort of? Kind of? Not really? Alright, fine, I’ll admit it, I feel guilty and I’m sorry. Now onward with the post that is three weeks late!
I could complain about my life in this post. There’s plenty of things about school that I don’t like right now. I could probably regale you with 500 words about how nasty high school is. The thing is, you already know how nasty high school is. You don’t need me pointing that out when you’re most likely living through it with me. And… well, I don’t feel the need to complain right now. I want to be optimistic, because… well, I don’t actually have a reason. You can tell that I didn’t think this through, yes? Anyways, I’m now to write about rather random happy things that – and this is the best part – relate to school in absolutely no way, shape, or form. Hurray!
I occasionally do incredibly random research on the internet. Sometimes it’s focused on something, and sometimes it’s “Oh hey, I heard that there are some really wacky things in Japan, like walking vending machines! I want pictures!”
And now you know one of the ways in which I spend my free time. I’m so productive, aren’t I? ^_^” But hey, it’s fun. Through another bit of random research, I found a couple really cool blogs that I’m now following, such as Tokyo Five Foot Eater. You should all Google that and check it out. Now. The woman who writes it is incredible and awesome and she bakes! Definitely a plus in my book.
You know what I’ve recently realized? I cannot cook to save my life. I can bake. I love baking to death, though I’ve baked exactly three things since becoming a Freshman, which is partially the fault of high school and partially because I simply haven’t been in a “baking space” as I call it, but that’s slowly changing, so perhaps this weekend holds some baking in store? Who knows…. But anyways, I cannot cook. I can make pasta. I can follow the directions to prepare frozen foods. I might be able to make lasagne, but that’s a stretch. It’s incredibly pathetic, if I do say so myself. So one of my projects this summer is to learn how to cook. I’ve drafted Su. into helping me, and anyone else who is willing to watch me fall flat on my face while attempting to make something in the kitchen that doesn’t include copious amounts of sugar (and then hopefully explain to me WHY I fell flat on my face and help me fix it), is welcome to join the endeavor. I think it’ll be fun, so expect some sure-to-be-rather-insane kitchen stories this summer.
And I’ve got one last picture for you! It’s of mitarashi dango, which I ate for the first time a couple weekends ago and have been thinking about ever since. It’s pretty much really sweet rice-flour balls that are then covered in a sugar-based sort of teriyaki sauce that is then grilled. I know it sounds a bit strange, but it’s the best tasting thing ON THE PLANET. And I must learn how to make them or I shall IMPLODE.
I’m not going to have a quote today, but rather a poem that I thought was really pretty. Don’t worry, I wasn’t the one who wrote it, so you won’t die of bad poetry. ^_^
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.
– George Gordon, Lord Byron
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