dinner and data
Oct. 15th, 2012 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianI discovered that there are paper screens in our kitchen! We can close it off, however tenuously, from the rest of the suite. Maybe I'll do that next time I'm up really early. I feel bad for making breakfast noises when Shiyu's room is so close.
Lulu and I had gotten in at the same time, so I demonstrated the screens to her. Then we both cooked dinner and compared food notes. She gave me umeshu; I responded with umeboshi. Some might think this was not a fair trade, though I love both. We also swapped spaghetti (me) for enoki and bean sprouts and tiny whole fishes (her), and stories about pickles and the foods of our childhoods.
Someday I will manage to come out ahead on the "giving people food" scorecard with these kids. Just putting some noodles in a bowl and handing it to Lulu without giving her a chance to demur was pretty successful. Putting her spinach away after she put it on the counter for me also worked. I'm considering making an American-style Thanksgiving dinner for everybody, if I can remotely find turkey or even a whole chicken.
When Shiyu got in we discussed a cheap trip to Kyoto that the international student organization is giving on the 31st. There are two options, Kinkakuji (which I have seen and it's beautiful) with Kiyomizudera (another temple), or Todaiji (temple) and Nara Park. I am leaning toward the second, but we're all going to look into it and discuss tomorrow. Seriously, 2000 yen is about $25 -- that's incredibly cheap just to get to Kyoto, and the trip includes lunch. No English tour guide, but you can't have everything. I do not suppose we will dress in costume.
And earlier today, I started a time lapse on one of the genes I'm actually interested in in -- and within the first two hours saw what I wanted to see and have been waiting to verify for years. SO AWESOME. Then I made it into a beautiful figure.
Lulu and I had gotten in at the same time, so I demonstrated the screens to her. Then we both cooked dinner and compared food notes. She gave me umeshu; I responded with umeboshi. Some might think this was not a fair trade, though I love both. We also swapped spaghetti (me) for enoki and bean sprouts and tiny whole fishes (her), and stories about pickles and the foods of our childhoods.
Someday I will manage to come out ahead on the "giving people food" scorecard with these kids. Just putting some noodles in a bowl and handing it to Lulu without giving her a chance to demur was pretty successful. Putting her spinach away after she put it on the counter for me also worked. I'm considering making an American-style Thanksgiving dinner for everybody, if I can remotely find turkey or even a whole chicken.
When Shiyu got in we discussed a cheap trip to Kyoto that the international student organization is giving on the 31st. There are two options, Kinkakuji (which I have seen and it's beautiful) with Kiyomizudera (another temple), or Todaiji (temple) and Nara Park. I am leaning toward the second, but we're all going to look into it and discuss tomorrow. Seriously, 2000 yen is about $25 -- that's incredibly cheap just to get to Kyoto, and the trip includes lunch. No English tour guide, but you can't have everything. I do not suppose we will dress in costume.
And earlier today, I started a time lapse on one of the genes I'm actually interested in in -- and within the first two hours saw what I wanted to see and have been waiting to verify for years. SO AWESOME. Then I made it into a beautiful figure.
