Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Thursday, February 3, 2011

GUNG HAY FAT CHOI

Today, Rowan and I went to Miya's while Jeff and Adam were at work. Miya's is this awesome sushi restaurant where you can get $2.50 rolls and $1 pumpkin miso soups. We then walked around downtown and talked about our future fashionista identities when we move to Montreal. Later, we made coffee and met up with Adam at the Castle. We walked through death-ice sidewalks and trudged in the snow to get to a demo that was being held at the New Haven police station. However, we ended up missing the demo and walked to Hong Kong Garden to purchase some dinner making food and treats to celebrate Chinese New Year. We ended up eating a soup with tofu, rice noodles, and bach choi, as well as a noodle dish with peanut seitan, woodear mushrooms, and seaweed. Then we discussed how the "Dragon cock sauce" was actually a death sauce as it would fuck with your sodium levels (because apparently 1 tsp is worth 85% of your daily recommended sodium intake). When Jeff and I got back, we ate a red bean mooncake and it was delicious. More pictures and stories to come. I've been horrible at writing lately.

Look at pictures!


Traffic outside the cop shop.


Kimchi dumplings and Udon noodles.


Jeff cooking the woodear mushrooms and seitan.


Waiting for Jeff on broadway st. 


Trendy Yale fashion block.



Sunday, January 23, 2011

I haven't really updated this blog in awhile. Much has happened. I am now officially a Master of English Literature (haha, which doesn't really mean anything except I get a piece of paper). I feel both relieved and a little anxious about that. Though, I feel like most things make me anxious. I don't know. I think I built the Master's project up too much in my head, took on something that was over ambitious, felt overwhelmed and just wrote it. And part of me thinks that I could have done better and that it's still really incomplete, but I think I should also learn that the entire thing is a process and that there'll be other opportunities to write and keep learning etc. I don't know. I also have NO IDEA (for the first time in my life) what direction I'll take. I think what appealed to me about school was the structure and the set path. Now, I don't know what might be thrown at me and I'm not sure if I'm prepared to take it on. I guess I just have to spend some time unlearning those things and to give myself time and space to figure things out.

Other things in my life currently involve hanging out with my rad partner, taking some time away from home and spending time with him. I also recently facilitated a workshop called "Racialized Women: Our  Lives, Our Experiences," which was really neat and interesting. I'm going to move to Montreal in a few months with some rad friends. I might go to the San Fran bookfair with Jeffrey in April... I get to cuddle with a kitten!

So, I suppose things are about as peachy as they can get at the moment. Need to start worrying less and everything will be fine.