07. 20. BREAKFAST

omelette

It appears that my mother has decided that my brother and I are devoid of all emotion. She is determined to make us cry at all meals. Otherwise why are we getting an omelette for breakfast, what have we done to deserve this? It was a pretty good omelette too. I mean, honestly, I know I make the best ones out there so it’s hard to compete, but these are passable. I say they will do. I didn’t actually eat mine with ketchup, but the picture definitely looked better with it so I just put the ketchup on and then handed it over to my brother. It is sort of amazing how this is the first decent breakfast I’ve had in a week or so. Oh, the humanity. But really my life is pretty good. And this radio show is worming its way into my heart. No, self, you can’t let this happen, it’s a show on the educational channel, it’s not supposed to — aw, but the jokes are so overboard and the music is fantastic and the POP CULTURE REFERENCES ahahaha what is this madness. Zhuge Liang is closer to the Red Cliffs portrayal of him as opposed to, you know, the whole icy aloof Please Don’t Touch Me with Your Filthy Hands I Have Chronic TB and I Am Generally Flawless Excuse My Beauty version of him. Speaking of which, I need to watch the movie a third time sometime this week. I’ve only ever done one other movie three times, I think that was The Two Towers, and that was up for considerably longer. And was a less shameful movie to watch three times. But just barely. My dedication amazes me at times. Here I go miles off track again.

[ETA] I have grown bored. The next two meals weren’t that interesting (beef, fish and tofu, respectively) and I’m not saying anything worthwhile anyway, so I’m going to give up and give in and focus on the radio show. And then maybe do homework or something, what is this homework that you speak of? This is not the student you are looking for.

07. 19. DINNER

새우볶음밥: shrimp fried rice

According to my mother, last week she made dinner for my brother once and he nearly burst into tears. This is simultaneously more and less amusing than you’d think. It is a completely logical reaction, considering that on other evenings he makes dinner, eats dinner, then does all the dishes. This may or may not be partially my fault, but then again is it my fault that I’m so insanely busy this vacation? (The correct answer is yes: doing away with German would free up everything after seven.) Anyway, so it’s not as big an overreaction as it sounds initially, but at the same time I am unfortunately capable of conjuring up the full mental image. This can under some circumstances be called funny. I prefer “ghastly”. Am I not making sense? Yet again? Well, honestly, I’m not stopping this this radio show until I get through a satisfying number of episodes, so you’re just going to have to deal with the nonsensical stringing together of phrases.

cold mochi

And this was for dessert! A student of my mother’s was invited for dinner, and she’d brought this. God they were so good, and I don’t even like mochi all that much. Wait, oh, Jesus God, so Zhuge Liang just left his little country cottage lair to set out into the wide chaotic world (…so now you know what I’m listening to. This is actually an oddly amusing rendition, the voice actors all sound like nightclub emcees.) — and the music they used was Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission. Oh, are you kidding me! They are really careful with their music selection so it’s not like they were all HERE IS A NICE MOODY SONG HAY but WHAT DO THEY MEAN IF THAT’S NOT WHAT THEY MEANT? Is this an extended metaphor?! ZHUGE LIANG AS PLAYED BY JEREMY IRONS? SO ZHUGE LIANG GETS CLIPPED FULL OF BULLET HOLES WHILE TRYING TO CONVERT THE ADORABLE YET THICKHEADED CRETINS OF SHU HAN TO MARGINALLY CULTURED BEINGS WHO WILL PLEASE LISTEN TO HIM AND NOT ASK ALL THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS OKAY? Ugh, migraine. This show is legitimately funny. I am impressed. Was I talking about food? Is this a food blog? Where am I? Who am I?