Hiromi Usagi!

I physically felt bad after I ate bad food Sunday night, so I ate so much healthy and yummy food on Monday. Marcia and I went to whole foods and Stanley’s, so I got a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. I cooked brussels sprouts for Marica and my roommates and Jill who was visiting. Brussels sprouts are soooo good. I just halved them and cooked with olive oil, garlic, and sea salt. That’s it. simple and good. I didn’t like brussels sprouts until my friend from Peet’s coffee told me this recipe. believe me it is soooo good.

As Matiss suggested, we played a card game called Zombi, and they ordered pizza and I made grilled hummos sandwich and steamed asparagus with soy wasabi mayo. My roommates don’t eat vegetable, but pizza and sodas. I am very concerned about their health, not now, but later. I am serious! Oh well, at least they ate the vegetables I cooked. That was good. Harper’s secret, but not really secret favorite food is pickles and its juice. He loves drinking pickle juice, which is too much salt for him, but I guess better than drinking more soda. Anyway, the game was fun. I didn’t win… Jill was the winner.

It was a fun day. I hang out Marcia a lot and sort of helped her photo shooting and cooked a lot and ate well. Monday is like other people’s Saturday to me, because I work weekends.

Oh I’ve got one-day museum tour guide job for Japanese tourists at the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago. I am pretty excited! It is just one day and 4 hours or something and it is a paid job. I guess they want to see Impressionist works……so Japanese…J/K. I led a tour for the college students when I was TA for art history courses. It was fun because I was in total control as far as which piece we should discuss. I don’t know this time though. They want to see Seurat, Monet, Manet, and Van Gogh and so on. Don’t give me wrong, I like Impressionism too, but I would see something I can’t see other museums, like Abstract Expressionism, Rembrandt’s prints, or 1920′s photo.

Oh, I have to mention Tadao Ando’s room. It is a small gallery in the Asian art section. You have to open the door to get in, which is sort of intimidating and exciting at the same time. The inside is so calm and dark and of course quiet. You have to get though wood pillars (like those pillar in a photographer, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s show at MCA) to get to an open space. It is like a Zen buddhist temple trick, I call. You don’t go to the main object directly (you don’t see the main object from the entrance), but going through a path is just like experiencing microcosm or psychologically getting ready for the most important part of the objects, like the heart of temple or art works in this case. If you haven’t seen this room, you should check it out.

I like blog and I don’t know why I didn’t start earlier.