Homemade Sushi

Mari and I did it! We made sushi last night. To be more specific, we made California roll last night. It may not have been expertly done, and as you can see in the picture, it was a little sloppy and loose, but we even improved with the second one. I think if we had had enough rice and enough room in our stomachs, we would have done even better in the third one. Mari came up with the key. You really have pack it tight, like a snow ball. We are going to get even more experimental and next time we go to Mankato, we're going to sit at the sushi bar and watch how it's all done.

Despite it being loose, the flavors were great. I do think, however, I need to find a different kind of sushi nori (the seaweed wrapping). This one was really tough to bite through and I frequently felt as if part of it was going down my throat while the rest was still in my mouth. It was an uncomfortable feeling, but still the flavors were great.

I'm tired tonight. For the last two days, I've been taking students down to the library and getting them into the stacks. They really are unfamiliar with how a library works, so I made them answer questions on a worksheet that required they find specific books and answer rather strange and obscure questions. It was actually sort of fun, but as I said tiring. Tomorrow I start in showing them how to look stuff up on databases, which is also strange to them, and even to people my age who didn't grow up with these things. That'll be tiring too, but satisfying. It feels good when you know your students are actually learning something knew...That is, if they show up.

So, I came home tired tonight. It wasn't even 5:00 and I decided to go upstairs and change into my nightgown. The idea was to get my bra off. It was rubbing and irritating me. So, I went upstairs followed of course by Joey. I was about to put my nightgown on, and I saw Joey heading for the stairs with one of my new socks. I wanted to chase after her, but you see, I envision these horrible headlines and they frequently stop me from doing stupid things. For example: "Naked, local English professor falls to her death in home: With a sock in its mouth, her loyal dog remained beside her." Is that weird or does everyone do that?