Ten Billion Sushi Dinners Cry Out For Vengeance.

Aaaah. I've rarely eaten so good (nor so expensive). Apparently, Jörg had promised his mother to take her out to the Daitokai in Cologne for her last birthday. Yesterday (two months before her birthday this year), he remembered it and innocently asked me whether I'd be interested.
Hell, yes.
The special thing about the Daitokai, beside their justifiably but painfully high prices, is that you have tables with a heated metal tableau in the middle, and the cook comes right to your table to produce your meal before your eyes. Amazing. I couldn't do that without covering everyone and everything in soy sauce or plum liquor and burning meat and vegetables to charcoal. Of course, the cooks there don't do any of the sort; instead, they manage to make a piece of art out of meats and veggies and sauces in a very elegant and effective manner.
Got to enjoy ostrich yakitori and duck with soy-orange-sauce, chanterelle mushrooms and sweet beans, garlic and soy beans and leek and green asparagus and celery, calpico and sake and teppan ice cream. Jörg had the same with Kôbe beef, and his mother had halibut filet and sushi. Aw, man. Watching the cook preparing the meals is already an epiphany, and the meal itself! Wonderful.
However, now I'm filled with the surpineness of a good meal, and late time (we spent three and a half hours at the restaurant!), and I'll drop right into bed without giving another thought about the linguistics assignment.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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( Zehn Milliarden Sushiportionen rufen nach Rache. )

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Early Morning

Only it's not so early. Still, I've started my first term paper! Yeehah!
(By "I've started" I mean I made the first page, and the preliminary draft of topics.) Ritual Networks in a Javan Village. I didn't pick it, it came to me. It was the only ethnography left, and I don't like theories, so I had no choice. It's not as bad as it sounds, though.

Of course, working on term papers always results in - what? Memes. Exactly. This one's snatched from emmett_the_sane.

Googlism your name, then post the results you like!

lyra is a constellation of considerable interest [Wee, thanks!]
lyra is not an imaginative child?
lyra is one of the newest lasers available [*stare*]
lyra is thought to represent the harp of orpheus [Am not! I've got nothing to do with him! I swear!]
lyra is relatively large for an mp3 portable [right, now I'm pissed.]
lyra is a progressive original band existing of two women [dammit, how did they find that out?]
lyra is with you on or off the web [*hums* I won't forsake you...]
lyra is shockproof [sometimes, that might come in handy.]
lyra is as simple as using windows media player [I'm what?!]
lyra is down [Not yet. Not yet.]
lyra is quite a good product [Ok, that's it.]
lyra is one of these stars [Better. Much better.]
lyra is right for you [Did you ever doubt it?]
lyra is one of the few survivors [Of what? Númenor? Mu? Hiroshima? I NEED TO KNOW! I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW MY PAST!]

And now, Lyra is off to work on her paper.

PS: Heh heh. So true. Thanks to officialgaiman for the link to that site. Or what about this one?