Heh. Did I get your attention? Actually those are two totally unrelated items, but you know me, I love alliteration and a catchy subject line.
Anyway, both items pertaining to the title happened Wednesday night, so I guess they are somewhat connected.

So, re: sushi...never had it before wednesday. Leo loves it, and other people I've talked to really like it, so putting my childhood bias about eating raw fish aside, I decided to let myself try it. Kenichi (the funny Japanese guy who isn't in our lab but does a lot of experiments with us anyway) was taking Mark (the now part-time guy tech in the lab) out to dinner. Not sure why, and they're the type of guys who can't say two words without insulting each other, but neither seems to mind. Anyway, going out to dinner, and I got invited. We were thinking about the Cheesecake factory, which would have been great, but then Mark mentioned how he liked japanese food so we decided to go to Sekisui, a relatively new place on Grand. When I told them I'd never had it before that pretty much sealed it. And I must admit, it was pretty good. We had a LOT of food! Eel, flat fish fin muscle (eep, but good), california rolls, dragon rolls, spider rolls...st louis rolls! I am not quite sure what was in all of these things, but they were good regardless. Now, I'm not a big fan of fish in the first place, so I probably won't be going again soon...also it's expensive! I caught a glimpse of the check and it was over $100...thank goodness Kenichi is a nice guy and paid for it We managed to finish off everything we got, and Mark said something along the lines of 'I didn't think you'd be able to eat all that.' eh. From him, who eats all the time, I guess it was sort of a compliment...didn't quite know how to take it. Whatever. We were all hungry by the time the food finally got there! So final verdict: good, but will probably never be my first choice.

And re: seduction, I finally got the new Laurell K Hamilton book from the library: Seduced by Moonlight. Kate will be happy to know that I read it in two days, including working hours. It's a pretty quick read. A good story, this is the third book in the Merry Gentry series. This series is the 'other' series LKH writes, and I still like the Anita Blake books better, but she does have a way of grabbing onto your interest and not letting go. I'm glad I didn't buy this one, however. It was just a little too short and didn't really...end, I guess. I will say that LKH is very good at making you want to know what's going to happen in the next book and makes you want to know now! sigh.

I'm a little peeved at this moment because I just found out that the last book I have on request arrived at the library today. Unfortunately the library is only open til 5 on fridays so even if I left now it would be a stretch to make it on time. And since Mom's art show is tomorrow it's doubtful that I'll be able to make it then either...ah well. I WILL pick up Fool's Fate and learn what happens to FitzChivalry. It just might be monday before I can launch into that one...which is probably a good thing, considering I still have four other books to read that I've kept out for nearly three weeks now. Newton's Cannon is suprisingly good for an alternate scientific universe yarn.

One of these days I'll figure out the amazon plugin so I can *ahem* plug those books.