Reliving Last Week

So we snowboarded for four days in a row, and I feel pretty comfortable on the mountain now. I still eat the snow doing black diamonds, but it surprisingly hurts less to fall when you are going fast than when you are going slow. It is more of a psychological challenge.

On the way back we ate at Murder Burger in Davis, or actually Redrum Burger now. We had to try the ZOOM (a big plate of fried zucchini, onion rings and mushrooms), even though my cardiac vessels were scared. And HB tried the ostrich burger which has a really good taste, different from any other burger meat. Basically, the rest of the week, we did a whole lot of eating (food in the SF area is soooo tasty) and watching Battlestar Galactica. It is such a good series, every episode is well done. I especially liked the first (or maybe 2nd?) show of the third season where Admiral Adama calls his son a fatass. Because Lee Adama is such a tool, even though he is hot. He makes retarded decisions and always gets bailed out of them by the cool people around him. But I digress.

HB introduced a new type of food to me: Bun bo hue. A bowlful of spicy noodle yumminess, and all this time I thought the best Vietnamese foods were the pho's and grilled pork and sandwiches. We also had delicious Korean tofu stew, awesome Mediterranean food, and Chinese comfort food. The last night, HB cooked his cabbage dish for me that he has been raving about all month. And it basically is just... cabbage that he sauteed/steamed with garlic and some green onions. It was pretty good with some rice and tofu.

We also watched the Friday midnight showing of 300. The crowd was crazy, we even saw people donning broom heads attached to bike helmets. Overall it was a good movie, very closely following the eponymous Frank Miller comic book, except for some added scenes with the queen and the Spartan counsel, which were kinda unnecessary. Of course any reference to the Greek city-states always reminds me of this class I took in high school. It was a two years humanities course, and when we studied ancient Greece, the teachers split the class into 5 competing city-states: Athens, Sparta, Argos, Corinth and ?I forget?. For a good grade, we had to literally do as the Greeks do (wear togas, build living quarters, etc.) I will never forget marching into 3rd period with a trumpet call (okay yeah, so no trumpets back then, but we improvised) screaming "What makes the grass grow? Blood Blood Blood! and offering "human" sacrifices to the gods (our teachers) Go Sparta!!!