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January has been dismal for interneting (neologisms ftw). I taught at least 6 hours everyday starting in December the week before Christmas and at the peak there were a few 10 hour days. I ended up being the person with gaps in my schedule that got filled whenever something when wrong, and this being Korea, that was all the time. Next week I ( Read more... ) -
This Is Why I Am Always Busy
I am thinking about quitting my editing job. It will mean saying goodbye to about $1000 but it will mean I will be able to sleep more than five hours again, see ㅈ guilt-free, study Korean, exercise, read and generally live a fairly stress free-life. Most of this is probably due to the personality conflict between me and 홍, the lady I am editing ( Read more... ) -
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I sent my passport off to renew it. I have been avoiding doing it because the picture of me in my current passport contains one of only about two pictures of me that I have liked. (That is why most of you have never seen a picture of me.) The picture was taken right out of university (when everyone is devilishly good-looking) and it was taken ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Korea...
Since I am moving to Canada, I will have extra toilet paper when I leave. Because of this, I decided to take some to work and use it up there. In a moment of inspiration the university decided that not putting TP in the bathroom stalls would be a great way to save money. So I figured that I would take some, leave it in the stall and since all ( Read more... ) -
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I came to 서울 this weekend to go Christmas shopping and get something for the baby my brother and his wife are expecting in March. Yesterday ㅈ's friend called and asked if we wanted to go skiing. It was opening weekend so tickets were half-price and there were buses that were taking people at reduced prices. Despite the ball-shrinking cold of -10 ( Read more... ) -
아무튼...
다시 한국어 쓰지 그렇다. 사실은 할 말이 없는데 한국어 증거를 보이고 싶다. 어재는 앨라배마 주에 사는 전 학생이 날 연락했다. 그는 감동한 학생 이다. 이년 전에 잘 영어말 하다고 선택 해서 국립안동대학교에서 공부를 시작했다. 일찍 아침과 저녁도 서업을 들고 하루종일 공부했다. 휴학을 얻어서 다른 공부하는 것 없으니 영어만 열심히 공부할 수 있었다. 일년 후에 영어로 대화 할 수 있네요. 여리번 교수의 파티 할 때 그 학생을 초대했다. 그런 상태에 얘기는 너무 힘들다. 말 하는 사람 숙어를 자꾸 사용하고 빨리 말 하고 원전히 설명하지 않아서 대부분의 영어말 잘 못 하는 사람 그 걸 절대 피하다 ( Read more... ) -
On the Eve
Election thoughts:
Did McCain avoid talking about Rev. Wright because it is better for him that people think that Obama is a Muslim than to suggest that he is a black revolutionary? Being Muslim is a different sort of racism that can easily be connected to terrorism and anti-Americanism. Black Liberation Theology does do allow those kinds of ( Read more... ) -
Oops
I may have inadvertently told my mother to fuck off last night.
The phone rang in the middle of the night. I was in the middle of a dream and so what I heard the person say on the other end was not "Hello" but "I am really terrified of McCain becoming president." In the dream logic that was still present in my brain the only answer was "Well, don't ( Read more... ) -
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You know you have been in Asia too long when this happens:
I was reading about election polling in the States and read that white men have have "not voted for a Democrat over a Republican since 1972, when pollsters began surveying people after they voted." I thought to myself why is that? Maybe if there was a white man I could ask about this" ( Read more... ) -
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So Busan was great. We saw four movies and it cost us 2만원. Total. There were problems with the double feature on the beach so we got our money back for that one. None of the movies were very good. I saw Japanamation for the first time. We saw a Korean movie from the 60's that was interesting as a relic. ㅈ and I spent 5 days together. But ( Read more... )