Cooking + Other Concerns, Worries, etc.

So I made curry the first time yesterday. I had gone running in the morning for the first time in a while (whew, exercise!) and then around 2, I started preparing curry. I was kind of anal about how to cut vegetables and how to clean the knife and what I was supposed to do. When I was cooking the meat and then the vegetables, I had put the potatoes in a separate bowl so after I had added the curry mix, I was like oh crap! I forgot the potatoes! So I put them in a separate pot and cooked them and later added it to the rest of the mix. Well, it seems like it's hard to make curry taste bad since the curry mix is the base anyway so in the end, it tastes normal. Even the potatoes are soft!

The curry and rice I made with radish and kimchi. The kimchi tastes too sour.

My kitchen! My apartment is pretty spacious.

Today I went on a 4 mile hike to Runyon Canyon. Surprisingly, my feet hurt by the end. Probably because it was so rocky coming down, and because I was so afraid of slipping down, my knees were perpetually bent while going back. Ah, well, my thighs are getting a workout at least. On the way there, we passed by the Walk of Fame and the Chinese Theater with all of the celebrities' footprints imprinted in the cement. I saw Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington and some others I can't really remember right now.

I'll be back. You can see my shadow in the left corner.

The trail I went on today! Very rocky and sandy when coming down. It was scary.

I went hiking as part of one of the summer orientation things planned by the summer Residential Advisers. Turns out, it had actually been canceled, but one RA didn't get the notice so we just ended up going with her. There was this one guy who wouldn't stop talking the whole hike. I was pretty glad when he left. Yeah, I'm a mean person. There were only 4 other people on the hike.

Pretty house. Looks tropical! Turns out we were right above the main road but we didn't know that.

 As for classes, I'm going to try going to the class on Tuesday and see what it's like and maybe rent out the textbook from the bookstore since I'm already behind. I actually just got an email from my professor saying that it's probably better to take EE 101 before EE 352... and I'm taking EE 101 in the fall semester. Should I do that instead? There's just not a lot of classes offered during the summer that are actually involved with my major at all. So yeah.

Need to learn Java this summer. I'm going to try to schedule out days for myself so that I feel more accomplished. OK!

Also, side note: my knife is rusting a bit. Am I washing it incorrectly? I guess I'll dry it after I wash it? Maybe I'm not supposed to clean it with dishwashing liquid? Hmm, concerns...