Practice starts saturday. Little Japanese girl, into Sabbath & Slayer. This should be good. And how about the practice space is fully furnished (kits, amps, etc.) and only runs 800 yen/2hrs/person? Awesome.
More sports festivals this week. Today begins 'Olympia' at Miyako HS, and I'll be playing on the teachers' Basketball team. This may or may not be a good thing, but I'm looking forward to it. Once again I don't know what my schedule is for Kita this week, so I'll have to contact Suisha or someone later on - I forgot my phone at home this morning so I'm temporarily cut off.
Stayed out last night to watch the Japan game at Rise, and boyyyy what a disappointment. I had 3 teams I was rooting for, and now I have none. Its not so much the World Cup anymore as it is the South American Cup... suffice to say I have no interest in any of the remaining teams, so looks like that'll be it for socccer for me this year.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Open Weekend
Don't really have plans this weekend, aside from going to this Rotary dinner thing tonight at Jodogahama to send off a few girls from Texas who've been visiting for the last few days. Though I'll probably watch the Brazil/Portugal game at Rise... awesome that no one else shows any kind of interest in sports. Who does that?
Anyway, this week was a breeze - Monday through Wednesday was a bunch of test correcting, and yesterday and today were/still are the Sports Festival at Kita. Volleyball today. Fun ,but lots of free time. So, per the usual, Ive been whiling the time away with a combination of reading various news sources and studying, but this time I also through into the mix some menu planning for the next dinner thing I'm going to have... maybe next weekend. Probably the weekend after. Real simple this time around, summer-y. Here's what I've got so far:
App: Prosciutto & cantaloupe, on arugula with strawberry vinagrette.
Soup/Salad: Gazpacho (chilled soup)
Main: Broiled Trout (or Bass) with Cucumber/dill/lemon tofu 'crema' sauce, topped with chili oil.
Id like to get a fourth item in there, but im still working on it.
Finally, Im in one of those uber-productive modes with guitar, so hopefully the fliers that Ive posted (and continue to post) around town'll start pulling in some potential members.
Anyway, this week was a breeze - Monday through Wednesday was a bunch of test correcting, and yesterday and today were/still are the Sports Festival at Kita. Volleyball today. Fun ,but lots of free time. So, per the usual, Ive been whiling the time away with a combination of reading various news sources and studying, but this time I also through into the mix some menu planning for the next dinner thing I'm going to have... maybe next weekend. Probably the weekend after. Real simple this time around, summer-y. Here's what I've got so far:
App: Prosciutto & cantaloupe, on arugula with strawberry vinagrette.
Soup/Salad: Gazpacho (chilled soup)
Main: Broiled Trout (or Bass) with Cucumber/dill/lemon tofu 'crema' sauce, topped with chili oil.
Id like to get a fourth item in there, but im still working on it.
Finally, Im in one of those uber-productive modes with guitar, so hopefully the fliers that Ive posted (and continue to post) around town'll start pulling in some potential members.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Pay Attention to Your Calender.
I should've - I totally wrote down on it that I'd be getting my internet hooked up on the 19th (so next Saturday), but somewhere along the way I started thinking it was last Saturday... which it was not. SOOOO I'm still without internet for another week. Bummer.
Had a bit of a party this weekend at my place, and it went pretty well - I think I might be doing it something like once a month... get the word out that I've still got wicked good skills in the kitchen. This weekend's menu was Eggplant rotellini stuffed with a tofu/walnut/sauteed mushroom paste, followed by a spinach, tomato, and buffalo mozz salad with a light olive oil/lemon juice/basil/cracked pepper dressing, and I cinched the evening with sushi-grade Tuna tataki topped with fresh guacamole & caramelized onions (and accompanied by my favorite garlic potatoes, asparagus, and mushrooms). Pretty tasty, though the plates I was serving on were absolute shit (next time I think I'll rely on myself to purchase plates and what-not), and I suppose I could do with a bit more furniture... Fun though, and I got mad props for both the food and the songs I played after on my guitar, and that's really all I was going for with this anyway.
Suisha should've taken some pictures, but I was too busy with, you know, cooking to bother myself with that. Plus, while I like photography, if I'm at a party I much more enjoy enjoying myself than removing myself from the moment.
Oh, and I finished my band flier and made a bunch of copies, so I'll be posting that around town, what, tonight? I'll probably watch some of the soccer game tonight at the Parisian Pub near my place 'La Tache,' so I'll at least put it up there.
I've got a really great secret too, but its confidential until completion, so you'll just have to imagine what kind of awesome thing/s I'm doing behind all of yr backs.
Had a bit of a party this weekend at my place, and it went pretty well - I think I might be doing it something like once a month... get the word out that I've still got wicked good skills in the kitchen. This weekend's menu was Eggplant rotellini stuffed with a tofu/walnut/sauteed mushroom paste, followed by a spinach, tomato, and buffalo mozz salad with a light olive oil/lemon juice/basil/cracked pepper dressing, and I cinched the evening with sushi-grade Tuna tataki topped with fresh guacamole & caramelized onions (and accompanied by my favorite garlic potatoes, asparagus, and mushrooms). Pretty tasty, though the plates I was serving on were absolute shit (next time I think I'll rely on myself to purchase plates and what-not), and I suppose I could do with a bit more furniture... Fun though, and I got mad props for both the food and the songs I played after on my guitar, and that's really all I was going for with this anyway.
Suisha should've taken some pictures, but I was too busy with, you know, cooking to bother myself with that. Plus, while I like photography, if I'm at a party I much more enjoy enjoying myself than removing myself from the moment.
Oh, and I finished my band flier and made a bunch of copies, so I'll be posting that around town, what, tonight? I'll probably watch some of the soccer game tonight at the Parisian Pub near my place 'La Tache,' so I'll at least put it up there.
I've got a really great secret too, but its confidential until completion, so you'll just have to imagine what kind of awesome thing/s I'm doing behind all of yr backs.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Culture-time
Played a bunch of volleyball in a park (and a bit of ultimate) for the majority of Saturday. Ultimate really is a fun game... I'm thinking about getting a group together - post some fliers, that kind of thing. Anyway, Saturday was a day full of sports and, ultimately, pizza.
Sunday was a day full of tabi, happi, obi, and gigantic shrines on my shoulders while walking down Oodori in Morioka - that's right, I participated in an Omikoshi which would be called, what, a shrine walk? IF you've ever seen those sterotypical parades in chinatown in one movie or another where a bunch of people in really asian-looking garb are carrying a big, but still mini, temple that may-or-may-not have women dancing on it on their shoulders while chanting, you know what I'm talking about. At the end of the day, I was very tired (still am, 2 days later - that thing was HEAVY), but the owner of a new pair of tabi, and a pair of boots.
This weekend's highlights will be my first party at my house (= me cooking lots of food), internet hook-up, hopefully more frisbee, and probably a long bike ride because I need to start training for a mountain race I plan to enter on the day before my birthday.
Sunday was a day full of tabi, happi, obi, and gigantic shrines on my shoulders while walking down Oodori in Morioka - that's right, I participated in an Omikoshi which would be called, what, a shrine walk? IF you've ever seen those sterotypical parades in chinatown in one movie or another where a bunch of people in really asian-looking garb are carrying a big, but still mini, temple that may-or-may-not have women dancing on it on their shoulders while chanting, you know what I'm talking about. At the end of the day, I was very tired (still am, 2 days later - that thing was HEAVY), but the owner of a new pair of tabi, and a pair of boots.
This weekend's highlights will be my first party at my house (= me cooking lots of food), internet hook-up, hopefully more frisbee, and probably a long bike ride because I need to start training for a mountain race I plan to enter on the day before my birthday.
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