Taking a test

Leina had a test this morning for some sort of social work certification so she could become a full time civil servant, complete with health insurance and paid time off. She was studying last night until she came over to Erica and Tony's for a Japanese dinner. Charles and she cooked with them a cornicopia of Japanese homestyle dishes from a cookbook called Washoku and another called the Ethnomusicologist's Cookbook, with the recipes in the latter supplied by Tony and Erica's friend, Marie. They made chawan mushi, bass with white cloud (they forgot half the white cloud, the daikon, but it was still tasty), miso soup, and rice with young ginger. It was all good. Leina mistook a dab of wasabi for half an edamame, though, and lit her mouth on fire.

Leina kept singing the refrain from some song that sounded like "Herbalicious" but apparently was not that word. She later tried to sing a karaoke version of Do Me! by Bell Biv DeVoe off the computer, but without the bouncing ball leading her through the lyrics, it fizzled.

Then they went to Fenton's for ice cream, where Leina got a petit scoop with lots of cookies and chocolate and caramel, and it was huge. She was a trooper and ate the whole thing, though. Charles got a 1-scoop, and it was about the size of half a pint of Ben and Jerry's.