Sakura of DOOM

1. Was in Berkeley for a conference, and it was nice to be around campus again!

2. Had braised meat rice for lunch, then got pastries from the Chinese bakery and pearl milk tea, yum. And the lunch place was playing Cpop and made me slightly homesick for Taiwan.

3. Watched The Snake Prince, a Shaw Brothers movie, with CB and jhameia and it is... quite a thing. Let's just say there was much more disco music and dancing than I had expected.

Doh, just realized I had a draft written and didn't post it yesterday. Anyway, have today's and yesterday's!

12/18

1. Made myself Korean noodles from a bag for dinner—the ones that are basically a little step above instant noodles and need to be refrigerated. Then I added an egg as usual, but I also dumped in the leftover fish from a week or two ago, including all the soy sauce and ginger and scallions, since they had congealed in the fridge. And since the noodle soup was an anchovy base, it worked really well!

2. Yay, Disney actually has an official version of "Let It Go" on YouTube! I have only watched it about five times so far... I love watching Elsa's body language and facial expressions change as she goes through the song.

3. Only two more days until vacation! And I am starting to panic about Yuletide now, as I have nothing written. Tomorrow: write one sentence! Maybe I will try to review some source tonight. Okay, technically this probably doesn't belong on my happy list...

12/19

1. Coworker asked if we wanted to put off the office gift exchange thing until after New Year, whew!! I didn't know what to get and didn't want to take time off potential Yuletide writing to have to shop for a gift tonight. (Of course, I ended up not doing Yuletide writing anyway....)

2. Found a new mainstream movie reviewer I like! It's been a while since I read non-blog movie reviews, because I so often think they miss the point, but I used to binge on Ebert's online archives through high school and college. Anyway, Scott Mendelson wrote the review I agreed with most re: Frozen, so I went back to read other stuff and was happy to find that he talks about race and gender and representation in the movies. Oddly enough, he is currently the movie critic for... Forbes. I guess he analyzes box office numbers a lot? Don't agree with everything, obviously, but it's good to have a backup to turn to when I don't hear much word of mouth via DW (which is how I get most of my movie criticism!). (ETA: man, I wish DC would read this piece on how to do Justice League)

3. Yay, I think the cats are nibbling on the cat grass we got them. I'm pretty sure it's just wheat grass, but of course the pet store labeled it as special cat grass.