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?