Sunday with vom_marlowe!

First things first, I actually woke up in time for the farmers' market! I have not been for months and months, and given the pattern of this year and last year, I think I will simply assume that I will end up not market-ing for the winter months. I swear, it's the greyness. I didn't take home all that much, as I am just gearing up, but I got PEAS! English peas for the first time since October! Joy! I also got a basket of strawberries, which were sweet and not watery like the supermarket ones, a quiche and a little cherry galette from one of the bakers, a bag of homemade frozen dumplings, and... cherries! There are cherries out! I got a pound of garnets, which I don't remember having before. There were some other kinds as well, but the garnets were the sweetest. And there were peaches and apricots, though I didn't get any, as they looked like the season was just starting.

Oh summer! I missed you!

And then I headed over to SF to see vom_marlowe and take her around the city (if by "take her around" you mean "go anime and manga shopping"). We had lunch at Samovar, with very wonderful polenta waffles and roast duck; the duck was almost unbearably salty, which went perfectly with the syrup and the waffles, and I have decided polenta waffles are the newest Best Thing Ever, as the cornmeal adds some crunchiness and chewiness. Then we ran off to the big anime/manga store, which sadly did not have any good manga on their 60% off shelf. But I did not leave empty-handed, as I managed to score an Evil Shoujo Rukia figurine. Whoo!

Then it was off to Kinokuniya. Though first, I think we managed to terrify everyone on the bus by our conversation:

( Manga cracktasticness )

( Kinokuniya loot )

( Buses hate me )

Minekura Kazuya - Saiyuki Reload, vol. 06-07 (Eng. trans.) (reread)

It's rather odd writing these up, as this is the third time I've read them -- I read the raws first, then the Japanese tankubon, then finally the TokyoPop translations. It's nice to finally be able to understand everything!

( Spoilers for both volumes )

Prior write ups here and here (spoilers through vol. 7 for both).