Weekend in SF!

Most of this weekend has been attempting to code my very first programs (go me?), which amazingly had much less swearing than I had originally anticipated. May this trend hold....

And today, I went to SF to meet up with yeloson and coniraya! We met at the Imperial Tea Court, which has won over my heart forever just for having real birds in those little wooden cages you see in all the Chinese teahouses in wuxia movies. yeloson ordered the tea, as he actually knows about tea and how to serve it properly. Like, the whole shebang -- swishing the water around the tea leaves in a cup and then dumping the water out, then filling the cup with water and pouring the tea into a little pitcher so it wouldn't steep too long, and doing it over again several times to get different blooms and flavors. There are probably proper vocab. words for this that I do not know.

I think we had a white tea, an oolong, and an aged puerh, and they were all really good. yeloson let us smell the tea leaves, some of which were lovely and smoky, especially the puerh at the end. Alas and alack, I must cut my caffeine intake, so I couldn't have too much.

We then ventured over to Japantown, in which I got Reload 6 and 21st Century Boys in Japanese because I am too impatient and will pore over the pages and puzzle at the meanings for hours. And we had sushi and donburi for dinner.

Oh! I almost forgot! There was a street fair near the Kinokuniya building, so we all had funnel cake! I think I ate too much, as I attempted to eat an entire funnel cake and couldn't finish, but still... funnel cake!

We also talked a lot about race and gender and sexuality in things, and I got lots of comic recs that I already have started to forget, so coniraya and yeloson, I poke at you both. I think there was the one with the Gorgons and 100 Bullets (?) and ... crud. My memory is so bad! Also, now I feel the urge to watch more wuxia, as yeloson made this awesome wuxia in space rpg with court intrigue and drama and cyborg eunuchs (!!) and I picked to be an assassin! I am sure no one is surprised. And coniraya mentioned that he is now watching So You Think You Can Dance, which has totally made my week!

Homicide 1x07-1x09

Why so hard to find a good picture of Pembleton? Internet, how you have failed me. I had the manip the hell out of this one, ergo the monotone, which I almost never do.

Oh man, I am really loving this show. I still cannot get over watching Pembleton, who is so awesome. So much love for Andre Braugher. And watching Pembleton and Gee and Lewis (all black men!!) doing their thing, all separate characters, all with their own personalities and everything... so awesome. I do want a woman of color, but I also get the lack of women in general in the homicide department at the time. Also, I have to give the show props for continually bringing on women of color in secondary roles.

( Spoilers )