unexpected holidays
I have the day off today since it’s Veteran’s Day tomorrow. I’ve never gotten V-day off before so I was thrilled to learn that I’d have two long weekends in one month.
We got off early yesterday too. After attending a scholarship breakfast where the recipients meet with their donors, I had Microecon from 8:30-10:30 and then I was free. I came home, ate lunch, changed clothes, and took a nice long mid-day nap. It was as wonderful as I’d imagined. Then around 6, Danny and I drove downtown and attended the Densho Sushi Sake festival. It was so. freakin. good. I love sushi but I don’t eat it very often because really good sushi costs money and it’s hard to justify a $20 sushi lunch on a student’s budget.
I received the tickets from a wonderful woman I met through the UW MBA Women in Business club. She is on the board of directors at Densho as well as the Japan American Society. Since I love sushi, I was more than happy to accept her offer.
Danny was really sweet to go with me and then drive me home after sake tasting. He doesn’t like sushi but I think he enjoyed seeing everything else. They had some cultural exhibits as well as local vendors and a silent auction.
In addition to seeing my friend, I ran into another WiB member who was there with her family. She’d studied Japanese and lived in Japan. We hung out with her and her family and had a great time wandering from booth to booth.
Oh, and the sushi was amazing! I’m spoiled now. I’ll never want a four piece + California roll lunch special again. This sushi was so freaking good. Basically, each restaurant put out small plates of their best sushi. We wandered from booth to booth trying different sushi and then took breaks to get a little shot glass of sake or Japanese beer. There were also booths giving away edamame, tofu, and mochi ice cream and green tea. I felt like a dork when I went up to the “tea stand” and ordered a cappucino. The vendor very politely told me that he could whip up a green tea latte for me instead. I was happy to accept that.
Also, I came home with a whole pack of Tacoma Tofu. They were handing out samples throughout the evening and then ended up giving away whole packages. I mentioned this to one of the ladies running one of the cultural exhibits, and she dashed back to the food room to get some free tofu.
I need to figure out how to prepare it. Someone suggested putting in a soup or just eating it plain with a little soy sauce.
Since last night, I’ve been taking it way easy. I slept in today, made migas and coffee, watched TV, went vegetable shopping, dropped off drycleaning and I’m now procrastinating. I have a lot of homework, but none of it is overwhelming. Now that midterms are done, I can relax for at least a week. Relaxing doesn’t mean that I don’t have any work to do, but instead I have less work, less reading, and no presentations or papers due in the next two weeks.
If I need to procrastinate anymore, I guess I could just review the itinerary for my trip to China coming up in March. Did I mention that I’m excited?