spacey

Definitely sick.

Went out yesterday to get a few ingredients I needed to make Tori no Usugiriyaki, the first recipe I'm trying out from Hiroko Shimbo's The Japanese Kitchen cookbook, a gift I received from Parki for my birthday last year.

Felt pretty spacey as I walked around, as if I was watching someone else through a fog. Fumbled with vegetables, trying to get them in their plastic bags. Got suddenly super-tired as I paid for my purchases, wanted desperately to just sit down in the aisle and take a nap.

I probably shouldn't have been cooking while I was sick but heck, I figured that Jeff was the one who gave me the cold so he likely couldn't catch the cold again right? Anyway, dinner turned out pretty well, despite my weird headspaciness. I purposely picked one of the easiest recipes I could find, which was basically thin-sliced chicken briefly marinated in a mixture of crushed sesame seeds, green onions, garlic, shoyu, honey, pepper, sesame oil, then pan-fried. I served it with rice and spinach, the accompaniment dishes suggested in the book.

Jeff's still sick, but is getting better. We both went to bed at around 9:30 pm. Blech.

Links/News:

Slashdot has an amusing thread about what The Lord of the Rings would look like if it were written by someone else.

Christopher Reeve will be guest starring in "Smallville", according to CNN.

William Gibson has a blog! (info from BoingBoing)