bibimbap

I've discovered that I can use my Wacom artpad even with tendinitis since I only need the lightest pressure on the pad for drawing. Speaking of drawing, I recently got a paying cartoon assignment as a result of someone coming across my doodles in Blatherings. Ironic that even though my Blatherings are intended to be a fun writing exercise outside the realm of my regular work, I've sold photos, cartoons, and received writing assignments as a result of my daily online meanderings. Still using ViaVoice, and I've started up physiotherapy again. I've resolved not to be stupid and have another setback. This means that I will likely not be doing much personal e-mail for the next while, just to warn you all, and will also likely not be keeping up with LJs as regularly (too much clicking). Went through some OVFF withdrawal this past weekend. :-( I would love to hear some OVFF reports; please do post URLs if you have reports online. I had a pretty quiet weekend. Brunch with Parki and Jeff on Saturday. Spent the rest of the day at Mark's watching Jeff and others play Magic; I sat on the couch updating Waiting For Frodo, watching anime (called Hikaru, I think, about a little boy with the spirit of a Go master inside his head) on my laptop, and studying German. We had dinner at a Korean-Japanese restaurant where I enjoyed some dishes I've never tried before. In case you haven't already guessed, I love adventures in food; my attitude has always been that almost any type of food is worth trying once. This time, I was especially happy with my main dish, a Korean hot pot called Bibimbap (I think that's spelled correctly), which is basically vegetables and egg mixed with rice. The rice came in a separate dish as well as a container of what look like ketchup but was actually hot sauce; both were supposed to be dumped into the hot pot, and then everything is mixed together. Yum. The most unusual item that I tried that night was a glass of liquid that came at the end of the meal which the waitress called "rice water". It looks like slightly milky water with white bits floating in it... not too appetizing-looking. But it was good! Very refreshing, with a subtle gingery flavour. Menu at a Korean Japanese restaurant we visited on Saturday night with Mark, Vartan and Hrach. October/2003 comments: Read | Post | LJ