Sometimes it's the small things
Jun. 23rd, 2002 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynthat make our day.
I mean, true, it's only 10:27 so it's not like there isn't more room in the day for things to happen, but I just had to smile at a line in an email I got... see, I have an email penpal in mainland China. Really nice guy. Writes when he can, which isn't often - every two weeks or so, maybe every three weeks. Considering how slowly overseas snail mail travels, I figure I'm lucky to get email that often. He knows I'm interested in Chinese culture, but he's only finding out bit by bit exactly how far that goes. Mostly when I tell him my latest reading material. Journey to the West took him a little bit by surprise, I think, but he knew it was a popular story so it wasn't that startling. The fact that I can cook and want to learn more about it really bowled him over. Apparently, in addition to whatever else our reputation might be, young Americans (he knows I'm 28, but he said 'American young people') have a reputation for not being interested in cooking for themselves. Last time I wrote to him I told him I was reading one of the volumes of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and would be interested in learning more about Chinese cooking. He volunteered to send me a recipe. It arrived this week (Ma Po tofu), and it looks good. A little different from the recipes I have for it in my cookbooks here, which should be fun... It was a single line in the rest of the email that made me smile.
"I have a feeling that you are really a little different from others."
That came from a real live genuine human being after getting to know me. It is therefore worth more than all the online personality tests in the world.
Today's pulp survival tips are:
35. Get a set of very small weights, or some kind of spring device, and do as much strength training as you can for your fingers. Sooner or later you will end up hanging by them.
36. Similarly, practice grabbing and grasping slender, sweaty objects the size and shape of a human wrist. For preference, these objects should be attached to something that weighs around 150 lbs. 220 pounds, if you happen to be female. It's unfair, but women never seem to have to rescue other women from falling off the cliff into the river of fire that drops into the gorge of doom or whatever the hell the problem is this week. Get used to it.
I mean, true, it's only 10:27 so it's not like there isn't more room in the day for things to happen, but I just had to smile at a line in an email I got... see, I have an email penpal in mainland China. Really nice guy. Writes when he can, which isn't often - every two weeks or so, maybe every three weeks. Considering how slowly overseas snail mail travels, I figure I'm lucky to get email that often. He knows I'm interested in Chinese culture, but he's only finding out bit by bit exactly how far that goes. Mostly when I tell him my latest reading material. Journey to the West took him a little bit by surprise, I think, but he knew it was a popular story so it wasn't that startling. The fact that I can cook and want to learn more about it really bowled him over. Apparently, in addition to whatever else our reputation might be, young Americans (he knows I'm 28, but he said 'American young people') have a reputation for not being interested in cooking for themselves. Last time I wrote to him I told him I was reading one of the volumes of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and would be interested in learning more about Chinese cooking. He volunteered to send me a recipe. It arrived this week (Ma Po tofu), and it looks good. A little different from the recipes I have for it in my cookbooks here, which should be fun... It was a single line in the rest of the email that made me smile.
"I have a feeling that you are really a little different from others."
That came from a real live genuine human being after getting to know me. It is therefore worth more than all the online personality tests in the world.
Today's pulp survival tips are:
35. Get a set of very small weights, or some kind of spring device, and do as much strength training as you can for your fingers. Sooner or later you will end up hanging by them.
36. Similarly, practice grabbing and grasping slender, sweaty objects the size and shape of a human wrist. For preference, these objects should be attached to something that weighs around 150 lbs. 220 pounds, if you happen to be female. It's unfair, but women never seem to have to rescue other women from falling off the cliff into the river of fire that drops into the gorge of doom or whatever the hell the problem is this week. Get used to it.
