I've been given my flight itinerary ( Read more... )

I rode the train this morning up to Chicago for my interview with the Korean consulate. In interview lasted all of five minutes ("So you have an English degree? You have teaching experience? What will you do after you teach in Korea? Ok, we're done ( Read more... )

Pictures are finally caught up.

Anime Central

Graduation Party

Gen Con

Thanks again to Darren and Hannah who made my trip to Gen Con possible, and thanks to Brian for snagging the hotel room. Pictures (from Gen Con, ACen, and my grad party) should be posted in the near future.

( Games Played )

It's nice to see that political campaigns that are centered on issue-based discourse are alive and well in this country.

America, if you fucking screw this one up while I'm gone, I may not come back.

The Korean company emailed me a contract last night. I've signed it and shipped it out with all of my visa paperwork. Barring some unforeseen mishap, I'll be teaching in Busan by October 2nd ( Read more... )

The coverage for the China Olympics has been neat so far, but the Chinese need to work on the timing of their musical interludes of American music.

For instance, I wouldn't have thought to play Hit the Road Jack during a timeout of a beach volleyball match. Just a suggestion for the Chinese.

Granted, today wasn't all that bad. I just didn't want to break up the homage to one of my favorite childhood books ( Read more... )

( Patrick and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. )

Random thoughts from over the weekend ( Read more... )