wtf

[verbicide]

Man, I don't get it. Is this day encased in molasses or something?

I shouldn't get any sympathy because I had Monday off, but this week is just moving SO SLOWLY.

I'm going to take the early bus home. I worked from home last night to finish this project. I just need to steel myself for an hour of editing (my own work, which suuuuucks) and then I'll be home free. Then one more day until I get to the work-at-home-day-of-joy.

I slept horribly last night. Tossed and turned. Kept waking up. Woke up with my hand all squished and throbbing from sleeping on it funny. Blah.

But I did get to have lunch with this cool woman from work (she's not an employee, but is providing training services for us from another company, and we have lunch once a week). She's very cool and we had sushi, which I bizarrely have gone from mildly disliking to totally loving. So that was exciting.

Okay. Really MUST edit, so can leave early. Blah.

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[serenity-valley.livejournal.com]

So did you end up getting to leave early? I hope so. I HATE days like that where they just drag along and it seems like you're never getting out of there.

Sorry you didn't sleep well. Attributed to anything or just one of those nights?

I admit I don't really like sushi. I want to like it, because...well, I don't know, I guess for stupid, facetious reasons like that I want to be a cool person who eats sushi.

Actually, I guess I like fish-less sushi fine. (I like fish, I just...have a hard time with the fish in sushi because my brain will not turn off. It's a thing.) I don't like wasabi (can't really eat it, actually...I know) so I have to be careful about eating sushi, too, that it's not wrapped into it. S made homemade sushi once when we were visiting my stepdad and mom in Arizona and taught us how to roll it and everything, and that was fun and tasty. But it's not something I gravitate toward.

So I guess I'm asking...was there anything that caused your slow transition from not liking it to loving it? Was it just that you kept trying it and eventually got to where you liked it, or something else?

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I think it was just one of those nights or my adjusting to the seasons, because really --things are going very well lately.

And you know, we really have some amazing parallels. I, too, wanted to be someone who loves sushi! And all my friends just loved it so much, and I ended up having to go on a few occasions (someone's birthday, a visiting guest's request) and I found that there really was more to it than raw fish--the texture of which is just never going to work for me.

When I discovered a few things I really liked --spider roll's, tempura rolls, and even really well made California rolls. I also have an odd love for the Tamago (the little slab of egg on rice, wrapped with a seaweed strip). It was just this gateway to another cuisine.

I got over my inherent fear of wasabi and started adding smidgens of it to my soy sauce and it just switched --and I really loved sushi!

Does that make sense? It was really just a matter of finding things I liked on the menu and eventually realizing that I really liked it. I think before, when we went to sushi places, I just got teriyaki or tempura and as much as those things were good, the sushi eating always made me feel left out and vaguely uncool.