A collection of unconnected thoughts from the past week:

[meitachi]

1. It's been two years since I've had borsch but it's still fucking delicious.

2. I...finally fell in love with beautiful hardcovers. Yes, years behind everyone else, probably. I've grown up always appreciating mass market paperbacks the most because they're cheap and light and made for easy reading and carrying around and, importantly for the anal retentive part of me, the same size when lined up on my bookshelf.

I hated annoying hardcovers for being heavy and bulky with dust covers that just constantly get in the way, but I guess I just never spent enough time at secondhand bookshops browsing the way they used to make hardcovers - like art pieces rather than for mass consumption with ugly dust jackets. Basically, I stared inappropriately and touched reverently in a way that would be creepy with people but is totally acceptable with books. Thankfully.

One day I will grow up and own a real house with a real library!

3. I watched the All Star Weekend 2012 and have developed a ginormous crush on Carey Price's snark. I have just decided that it's easier to assume that everyone is a terrible person and refuse to care about anyone off the ice, but if they entertain me on ice, I'm a fan. I've rewatched ASW 2011 many, many times, thanks to my Staal/Skinner/Canes love (as well as the Danny/Claude and Kaner/Tazer moments), but 2012 gave me new appreciation of so many players. In retrospect, it was a probably better that I didn't watch it until I knew enough hockey to know and care about almost all of the players because it was more fun this way. So many feelings. So many player crushes!

4. What the fuck. PARK JISUNG IS GOING TO BE ON RUNNING MAN. PARK JISUNG AND RIO FERDINAND. What the fuck. Also, obligatory "fuck Man United".

5. While I'm on the topic of Korean fandom, I only managed to catch about 10 minutes of the livestreaming Google Kpop concert last week because I forgot and also was too lazy to stay up for, but in those 10 minutes I saw f(x) (Victoriaaaaaaaaaa) and Seohyun do a solo. My thought process:

MEI: Wow, this song is really upbeat!
MEI: Wow, you're playing guitar all by yourself, Seohyun!
MEI: Aww, I bet Yonghwa is so proud stupid in love.

Apparently I tinhat them more than I knew. :D

6. I have come to the tragic conclusion that Claude Giroux and I are terribly unsuited for each other despite our shared love of grilled cheese sandwiches and chai lattes - and not just because he's, cough, already married and basic things like, you know, reality. I mean, he fucking loves bread. And I? I think bread is a fucking nuisance of empty carbs taking up space in my stomach. (Yet I love rice. BLAME THE ASIAN IN ME.) I just stopped myself from making a dirty joke here.

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Comments

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

G is another golden delicious thing. I would keep him locked in my room if it weren't for the fact that I need him to be amazing on the ice. Can I at least have a puck bunny moment and FIND him? God. I would probably faint if I were to meet him in real life. Girl can dream I guess. In other words, Dannnnnnnny! <333333333

[2naonh3-cl2.livejournal.com]

And I told you that he 2012 all star game was good. Carey was awesome.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Wow apparently my brain is in a dirty place because it keeps making horrible innuendo filled statements to me like SEE, G IS JUST ANOTHER DELICIOUS THING THAT BREAD WOULD BE TAKING UP POINTLESS SPACE FOR.

I DON'T EVEN FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT HIM.




Okay, that's obviously a lie.

[rsadelle]

I actually LOVE BREAD, but I now eat gluten free, which makes bread more of a pain than it's worth. I hate mushrooms, though. (I'm not just a vegan, I'm a picky vegan.)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

YES, WE CAN HATE ON MUSHROOMS TOGETHER. VILE THINGS.

It is a good thing I have friends who eat mushrooms though, so I just pile mine onto their plate while they judge me. Whatever, as long as I don't have to eat them!

[intomorning.livejournal.com]

I WATCHED RUNNING MAN WITH PARK JISUNG AND IT WAS GREAT. Srsly, I may have swooned. ;P What, Rio Ferdinand is coming on, too?? :OO I wonder why not Evra because I think he and Park are good friends (?).

Bread is delicious! I want to make some! (Haha, I want to make everything from scratch...)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I will acknowledge that homemade/freshly made bread is pretty fucking great, but I feel about it much the same way I do about desserts - good for about three bites or the equivalent thereof and then I'm done. Food blasphemy? Perhaps. Or perhaps I only ever encounter bread when I'm hungry for other things so I'm like WHY ARE YOU TAKING UP SPACE? >:(

I haven't watched that ep yet but Park Jisung and Rio Ferdinand will be together in an ep coming up! It's kind of amazing how big Running Man's gotten.

[transitorial.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to say about hockey, sadly (except that, okay, EStall and his kid are the most adorable things to ever adorable,) so I am mostly here to make sad faces at you because HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE BREAD, SERIOUSLY, BREAD IS FUCKING AMAZING.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

ahaha your Yotsuba icon is so appropriate

BUT SADLY I DON'T LOVE BREAD. Well, I don't hate it and I actually do enjoy freshly baked warm bread but basically most of the time I'm like I'M EATING THIS BECAUSE I'M STARVING AND IT'S FREE (at restaurants) or I'm like NO GIVE ME RICE.

[darkunicorna.livejournal.com]

YES HARDCOVERED BOOKS I BUY THEM ALL THE TIME EVEN THOUGH I'M SO POOR I JUST LOVE THEM OKAY I think have heart attacks then the spines of my paperbacks are cracked so I prefer hardcover but also because they are beautiful and sturdy and idk screw dust jackets they can be burned

Also omg Carey Price.



CAREY PRICE.

WHY CAN YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF THE HORSE YOUR RIDING AND TEXT IT BUT NOT CALL SOMEONE I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND.

But yeah dude recently joined twitter and there's this one time he was tweeting his sister and I was just like WOW HE SOUNDS JUST LIKE MY SISTER RIGHT HERE??



Ugh I just love sibling relationships and hockey players' twitters

Also whenever I think of Carey Price Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) automatically starts playing in my head

[meiface.livejournal.com]

SOB TRUST ME I HAVE BEEN LURKING HIS TWITTER LIKE A LURKER alskdjfd part-time goalie, full-time redneck GOD WHY DOES HE EXIST. HE'S SO WEIRD. GOALIES ARE SO WEIRD.

YOU'VE SEEN BRYZ'S TWITTER TOO, RIGHT?

[altri-uccelli.livejournal.com]

I fail at finding stuff on the internets...is there somewhere the whole ASW can be found? I've gotten bits and pieces of the skills competition off YT but I feel there's like 92% of it that I haven't seen.

Also LA LA LA NOT LISTENING TO ANY BLASPHEMY ABOUT G AND HIS ACTUAL REALLIFE SEPARATE FROM 1) ON ICE, 2) BEING INTERVIEWED IN FRENCH, 3) DOING DORKY PR PIECES WHERE HE LIKE TAKES A TV LADY TO HIS FAVORITE TEA SHOP (TEA SHOP!!!) IN OTTAWA, OR 4) PLAYING SHIRTLESS CORNHOLE. Not listening to any of it.

Bread's better in Canada, trufax.

Hardcovers: I love 'em, too. I just got a first edition of a Rosemary Sutcliff book I love for like $10, shipped, from the UK, which is probably only $2 more than a trade paperback of the recent reprint. it's not that it's a first edition, as such, that I care about; it's that it'll feel sturdy, and the pages are sewn not glued to the binding, and the paper will be thicker and soft, and the typeface will be nice.

In conclusion,
(http://imgur.com/mWbc2)

[meiface.livejournal.com]

hahaha hey, I'm the one who couldn't find Giroux speaking French on the internet for some reason. So here you go!

2011 NHL All Star Fantasy Draft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idP82IHe7ZA
2011 All Star Skills Competition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKFhRJUuYVY
2011 All Star Game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuR7kMJcNc4

2012 NHL All Star Fantasy Draft - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmoAKkF4WOw
2012 All Star Skills Competition - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSvx0E8B3Ns
2012 All Star Game - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGQhmjajSw

Also, G is actually pretty awesome off-ice from what I can tell (and I've, uh, spent a lot of internet time on him, let's just put it that way), but in general I feel the need to divorce liking players on-ice versus as people, because. Yes. In that place where I'm reminded constantly of male privilege everywhere, all the time.

ANYWAY. Beautiful hardcovers are beautiful and definitely for keeps. Mass market paperbacks are still my favorites for reading, but that eventual library I build will have pretty, pretty long-lasting hardcovers. :D

[kumquatweekend.livejournal.com]

and, importantly for the anal retentive part of me, the same size when lined up on my bookshelf.

I'm not alone! THANK GOD!

I'm still bitter about that last Harry Potter book messing up my beautiful straight lines. What was I going to do, wait for paperback?

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I am slowly, slowly prying myself away from that need and learning to embrace diversity on my bookshelf - it's okay if they're all different sizes and colors and - no, okay, books from a series or set have to all match. That I can't compromise on. ;__;

(I also approve of your icon, yesss. Oh Teen Wolf, why is your fandom so big and yet ALL YOUR FIC WIP??)

[peachpastiche.livejournal.com]

bread is like terrible 80% of the time, it is true

that said you are forever wrong about mushrooms

also now i am heavily craving some of that whipped cream fruit bread from breeze cafe :(

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I really just want a hot cup of tea right now. ;__; DIAF, cramps.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

I actually enjoy making bread, much like I enjoy making desserts! But not really eating either of them. I mean, aside from like one slice of something freshly baked, and then I forget it exists or don't want to eat it and have to pass it out to friends, haha.

But yeah prepackaged breads are so meh, but even the fresh loaves in restaurants I only eat if I'm starving. I don't know! My dislike is irrational! Well, no, I don't even really dislike it; just...disinterest?

I looooove the mass market paperbacks, but they're not built to last, it's true.

[sweetcherrytree.livejournal.com]

i love bread mushrooms and borscht

basically i love all food forever. eat ALL the things!

lol omg carey price was hilarious at ASW 2012, he is such a troll. too bad i didn't care about the habs during the season considering i live in montreal, but they did pretty terribly so maybe it was a good thing.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

You're like the first person who actually even knows what borscht is. ;__; IT'S SO DELICIOUS. PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND.

I really do love most food! Three things I don't eat (mushrooms among them, blech) but...some foods I have more strong outbursts of love for. :D

I have so many player crushes now, it'd be impossible to care about all their teams. I WILL STICK WITH MINE and just occasionally giggle over great players and their ridiculous antics. My plan for the next season~

[downtohades.livejournal.com]

BREAD, FUCK YEAH YOU WISH YOU WERE AS AWESOME AS BREAD IS. BANANA BREAD, PUMPKIN BREAD, DAKOTA BREAD! AHHHH I AM OVER COME WITH EMOTION JUST THINKING ABOUT IT!

Also, your soul amuses me. And by soul, I mean posts. Because that is your soul? Or something? I don’t know what I’m saying to be honest. *wanders off munching on bread to be creepy elsewhere*

[meiface.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE DELICIOUS FOR, LIKE, ONE SLICE AND THEN I'M OVER IT. :( Weirdly, I enjoy making bread? Though it's been a long time since I've made carrot bread. I remember enjoying carrot bread... Or maybe it was just for that one slice.

My soul is a bit hung up on Claude Giroux lately and all the bits around it are just me pretending to be a normal person, haha. Honestly I'm just kind of surprised my non-hockey friends haven't disowned me yet for how hockey 24/7 I've been recently!

[meritjubet.livejournal.com]

Well it really depends on the bread? Like a nice artisan bread is delicious. Or mixed grain or with seeds! Plus apparently American bread is more sugary? I know I don't associate bread with sweetness. Pastry yes, bread no. I also like rice though! Someone I know thinks I'm weird because I can tell the difference between different types of rices. I'm discerning! lol also mushrooms are wrong.

I used to get a wrist ache from reading hardcover books. On the other hand I bought a book from 1917 simply because of the age + cover. So. Pretty!

[meiface.livejournal.com]

Nooo I just get bored of eating them even if they are delicious. I'm just like, what is this, why am I eating this, it is all just empty carbs TAKING UP SPACE.

I...am not a bread connoisseur. Probably because I don't eat enough of it. Oh, I do enjoy Italian loaves though!

And there is definitely difference between rice grain types and how they cook/taste. :D Yay rice!

[forochel.livejournal.com]

library!

GLOOOORY GLOOORY MAN UNIIIIIITEEEEEEEED I don't even know what Running Man is but this amuses me. Greatly.

carey price is really really hot! I still dream of writing kaner/cary price pwp at some point in my life. some non-embittered point in my life.

I adore bread! once I bought a loaf of fresh bread from the bakery and then I ... ate half of it with butter because I was so hungry. and it was so delicious.

[meiface.livejournal.com]

It's a ridiculous Korean variety show full of celebs! So I can understand Park Jisung being on it during the offseason, but Rio Ferdinand? My mind, she boggles a bit.

Yes, I...enjoy fresh bread especially when I'm starving, but otherwise I'm like SO WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER THINGS I COULD BE EATING?

Carey Price is also freaking hilarious. :D

[papered.livejournal.com]

I have never had borscht! I should change this.

Having a library one day is one of my distant, should-happen-if-I-ever-get-rich goals, haha. Actually, I just want floor-to-ceiling bookshelves everywhere... but then what if there is an earthquake? .___.

I LOVE BREAD!!!!!!

[meiface.livejournal.com]

It's yummy! :D I mean it's basically beef stew with lots of beets but it's delicious.

Your concerns are colored by your time in Japan! ...earthquakes are not so much a worry here on the East Coast. Maybe hurricanes though.