ah, this is what relaxation feels like

[alonewiththemoon]

breezes coursing through the house, second cup of tea, lovely random music on the mp3 player (though I swear every third song has been by Azam Ali or Niyaz, I think my mp3 player has a crush on her), and above all nothing really to prepare for in the immediate future.  Shortly I will amble over to the used bookstore to trade in some books and pick up some new ones, then I suppose I will do some yoga and some playful no pressure dancing, and the forecast also holds intermittent laundry throughout the day.  This is my version of doing nothing, but I'm happy with that.

Recital show yesterday went all right; I reserve judgment until I see the video.  I made a couple of mistakes that loom very large in my mind.  One thing I was really pleased with though was my zill playing.  My overall feeling after the show was "well, that was good prep for performing the same song next Saturday" as I'm performing it at the Faten Salama workshop show.  Afterwards M and I went to Mr. Sushi for a delicious meal. They've introduced a bunch of new maki, all with baseball names, as I suspect every sushi place in the greater Boston area has done.  I had one called the Triple Maki, which was salmon, tuna and a white fish whose name escapes me with wasabi tobiko--scrumptious!  Next time I go there, I think I will see if they can make the regular tobiko sushi with the wasabi tobiko, that is one of my favorite things.

We watched the movie Slither when we got home, and it was good stupid fun.  It was well paced and actually well filmed, not a second longer than it needed to be, with amusing snappy dialogue.  Nathan Fillion's part seemed designed for him, or maybe they gave him a lot of input on his lines.  Some of the reviews I read when it came out made a big deal about how gross it was, but I would say if you watch a lot of sci fi and horror, it is really rather tame in that regard.  All the gore is clearly fake and the gross stuff is so over the top it's just silly.  Perfect summer night rental.

ok, book time...

Comments

[nepenthedreams]

Heh, we went to the other sushi place in Arlington - Mizume or something - it's in the center.

[alonewiththemoon]

I have a mental block against going there because it's across the street from my high school, it's a matter of survival instinct even all these years later.

[nepenthedreams]

I think you're thinking of a different one (unless you went to high school across the street from Starbucks, CVS, etc.) I've tried that one too and wasn't impressed.

This place had Chinese and Japanese and was good at both.

[alonewiththemoon]

I'm thinking of Toraya, that's across from the high school. I'm trying to think of what sushi places are in Arlington center and all I can think of are Asiana Grille and Sweet Chili...

[nepenthedreams]

It's a new place, where Viet's Cafe used to be.