That sure was some tasty chicken stirfry!

It snowed more today and I did pretty much nothing. Except ..

Tonight I made dinner for myself. And it was delicious. I continue to amaze myself.

So yesterday, my mom topped somehow managed to top herself in the amazing care package department. The box contained: The Anchorman DVD (as selected by my little sister), an incredibly nice scarf (as selected by my older sister), Jon Stewart and the Daily Show's book America (as selected by my mom), as well as cheezits, cheetos, thin triscuits, snickers, and pringles. If you know anything about my taste in humor or snackfoods, you know this package hit the nail on the head. It was perfect. Arigato ne, Okaasan!

Two interesting news stories: Matt Leinart decided to give up millions of dollars and risk injuring himself to take a shot at a third national title shot at SC. I'm not sure if this story makes me want to say "you idiot!" or "why aren't more athletes like this?"

The other story was on cnn.com and was talking about the best-mannered cities in the U.S. according to some ettiquette teacher who says she based her ranking off of "letters and faxes ... from the public and those who have taken her etiquette courses", so you know it's pretty scientific. I wasn't so appalled at the top ranked city since I know nothing about it and have no interest in ever going there (Charleston), but I was pretty appalled by the eighth ranked city: Philadelphia. Now, Philadelphia is definitely much more polite than say, New York (which isn't saying a lot since a room of people booing you and throwing things at you might be more polite than New York City, too). But I lived in Philadelphia for four years, and it was definitely chock-full of tired and angry assholes who I wouldn't exactly consider to be polite. Believe me, I wasn't exactly ready to write letters about the all-stars they have working the register at Wawa - or the other people shopping at Wawa for that matter. Maybe they didn't count West Philly and 90% of Center City as part of the city, because then it might be considered not impolite. I have a funny feeling Mayor Street and his staff's hands are all cramped from writing tons of letters addressed to this ettiquette school ..

I had two conversations today that set me off angrily, something that doesn't happen tooo often. One was about how Asian or un-Asian I am - something that has been offensive to me since I was a kid when "friends" called me a disgrace for not being "Asian" enough and other Asian kids would like shun me for not doing "Asian" things - like listening to bad hip-hop, growing my bangs out long, wearing a Nautica jacket, or wanting to drive a lowered Integra (all things I feel like I'm a better person for not doing). I wish Asian-Americans would realize two things - their idea of what being "Asian" is is just an empty, fleeting identity they've built up in AMERICA. It is not Asian - it is a skewed definition of Asian-American. If they came to Asia at this point, they'd probably be viewed as less Asian than me now. This silly defining of what "Asian" is should stop. And secondly, they should know that their kids or grandkids are not going to be nearly as Asian as they think they will be. Why? Because they will grow up in America to American-born parents (or parents largely-raised in America) and that makes it pretty difficult to make them anything other than really, really American. Trust me - it happened to my family (has anyone seen my sisters recently?).

The other conversation was about people not wanting to ever get married and not wanting families - which I definitely hear as an option and I know it's a personal decision. But I feel like people are being too selfish nowadays and forget two things: (1) that the only way we exist is because of procreation and I don't think that sucks so much and (2) as you get older you will get lonelier. "But I'll have my friends and family!" Yeah, and they'll either die before you or have their families to keep them occupied. And if they don't, well good - you have two or three people to hang out with. I for one want something to leave behind after I die - something to carry on the torch of my family. And yeah, marriage can suck, but so can a lot of things; yeah, having kids can be a pain in the ass, but they can also be the greatest thing that ever happened to you; I don't think those are really convincing reasons to run away. And I can tell that within my own circle of relatives, the people who are unmarried are either much less happy with things than the people with families or are trying to get married now. Probably the thing that pisses me off the most is that the people who say these things are the smart, ambitious people - ie, the people with the good genes that should be procreating! Right now all the idiots are procreating! That's doom for our society! Okay, I will stop talking about this because I probably pissed people off just writing all that. And I don't want to go there with this blog.

Wow I have to pee now. Bye.