daily specials:
drew's tasting menu:
appetizer: unflaming, whiskey-soaked inari
soup: whipped rice congee
entree: seared duck breast (from a young, but fed-up bird)
dessert: fresh asian fruit salad with bitter melon-lemon dressing

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

So nuances and demographics:

Many teachers are somehow recently bebabied, and to me it is nice to see how they have their foreign parents or in-laws take care of them: this is the subtle free daycare which often makes the difference between well-raised and not at all; whereas, the mathers are not very open to change and proud of their obstinate ways set in the past and aiming rather low, I think, in terms of the content covered; whereas, everyone is in the process of fixing up a house because that is more sensible than buying a fancy one, and there are retreats to be had down the road; whereas, rent is plunder; whereas, boisterousness is at this early stage still apologetic; whereas, things run without you just fine; whereas, it is scary to be autonomous, and to be in a zone, it feels almost like we are separating the Koreas and full of landmines, though in truth we might be reuniting those two Koreas; whereas, in the spirit of cooperation all is possible, but sometimes when the Department decides to bump every class size up by 10%, only concerted collective bargaining can change matters, even if certain students must needs be turned away by the new Chinese teacher on the block in a halting native tongue, a troubling dilemma I haven't yet grasped, even though it was one of the many weaknesses of the old administration at the old school, this open and limitless admissions without taking a stand, but it feels like Lex's sorites again: why not just one more?