no cooking classes for my mother & me. they were already full, so bollocks to that. someday i should take a spring roll rolling class. whenever i make spring rolls, the first ones always end up looking like crap. by the time i get to the last of them, though, they look pretty good. it's like i finally start to get the hang of rolling them - but at that point it's really too late.

for i don't even know how many years, my favorite restaurant was this place called 'asian restaurant' - quite original, don't you think? unfortunately for me, they closed a couple of years ago. they served typical chinese & vietnamese dishes, but the thing i loved about the place was the fact that they had an entire vegetarian delights menu. when i first found the place, i was a non-meat-eater. i do eat meat occasionally now, but i still prefer meals without any flesh involved. the 'fresh vegetarian spring rolls' from the asian restaurant were the best food in the entire world. i could have lived on them. the only things that i'm certain were inside the rice paper were tofu, wheat gluten, bamboo shoots and some type of lettuce, but man, they were absolutely brilliant. then of course you also got some of the yummy peanut sauce they had, that was unlike any other peanut sauce i've tasted in my life. i can make my own inferior version of them, but it's just not the same. when asian restaurant closed, i decided to pick another favorite restaurant, which is now also history. at that time i decided that i would not have a favorite restaurant again, for fear of dooming some nice place.

david called earlier today, but i was asleep & missed his call. damnit. he left a message saying he'll try back tomorrow, so hopefully we'll connect then. i wonder how things are going for him in florida. maybe he hated his job and has already quit and is coming home?! bah, that would suck for david. i do miss him, but i also want things to go well. he needs some good luck for a change.

random movie quote:

"everything you create, you use to destroy."
"yeah, we call it human nature."