tasty food!

I really liked Sichuan Delight (over by Target in RWC, and if you live here you shoudl go try it and get a bunch of sichuan special dishes.) and recommend it totally! spicy! not your usual boring americanized chinese food! OMG I'm sure it was all so great because it was fried in lard. But I didn't care. The sweet potato/red bean/sesame "pancakes" were especially great and the spiciness of everything was perfect so that my lips were all tingly.

spicy chicken: incredibly tasty but I hate skin and had to nibble it in a disgusting dissective way.
family style tofu: awesome. mushrooms, snow peas, water chestnuts, but better than it sounds... non-boring.
orange beef: i didn't have any.
sweet potato pancakes: fucking awesome. orgasmic. sweet and dough-nutty!
spicy dumplings: I devoured them. spicy!
atmosphere: good. classy but not pretentious. wall-sized fishtank with pretty fish in it.

chula and rook and I read to moomin a little and then watched more space island one - the episode where the consultant comes to the station to evaluate everyone.

A cosy evening.

I'm now going to fall asleep reading "Kidnapped"... I was in the tub just now thinking that I hope that Moomin is the sort of kid who will read this book and not notice really that it's full of odd words like "gleg" and phrases like "I was sliddering back into the lynn" because he will pick it up from context. I think so. I realize suddenly how rare this is now. It must have been rare when I was a kid too but I am figuring it's more rare today. Would most kids just shrug and put the book down? Yet they can pick up a game or a cell phone and make it work. It's the same skill.

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[Prentiss Riddle]

Is it rare? My older girl and her peers were slamming down the Harry Potter from an amazingly early age and later I realized there must have been mountains of unfamiliar vocabulary in that.