A brief recap of bizarre events.

Last July, I started working at a new company. They gave me stock options upon joining.

In April and May, an Italian company acquired the company. They offered to compensate each person on staff for their stock options. It wasn't an absurd amount of money, but it was an absurd amount of money for something I had ( Read more... )

Oh my god I used to write such long existential-crisis-style entries. I can't bear to read through them now.

In my last entry, I mentioned I was about to see a specialist about my teeth. Not a lot was accomplished, but he recommends further treatment with my current dentist. How do I describe this . . .

Invisalign aligned my teeth and then brought ( Read more... )

I think everyone experiences shame about something. Some people are weirdly vocal about the things they feel shame about. I have mostly kept quiet, and I still don't want to go into it much.

In 2007, shortly before I returned to Korea "for good" (that is, after two short stints, and before getting my first regular job), I had a bad experience at ( Read more... )

Will I ever return to the US? Do I want to? Am I ready to?

This is a tough one.

Obviously the pandemic had made living rather miserable pretty much everywhere. People have lost touch with many friends due to not being able to see them, myself included. I was always trimming my social circle, and it pretty much collapsed the past two years. Which ( Read more... )

I don't really experience regret. The closest thing I experience is wishing I'd had certain knowledge sooner than I did, but there are still things I don't know today that I wish I knew, so that's not quite a form of regret.

Whenever I try to go back in my memory and justify a choice I'd made, I can remember the circumstances that led to making ( Read more... )

• In 2005, I stayed at dorm at Yonsei, shared with a roommate and sharing a bathroom with maybe two dozen other people. I don't remember much about it.

• In 2006, I stayed in an apartment out in Ansan. It had no air conditioning, so I had a rotating fan. It was the top floor room in a two-story apartment, with three women living in separate rooms ( Read more... )

I've been reading through my old posts, bit by bit. Apparently I stopped writing in 2012, and almost everything from 2010 to 2012 was a private entry.

So far I haven't come across any records of my experiments with exercise. I call them "experiments" because in those days, I am fairly certain I didn't know what I was doing. I'm still not sure I ( Read more... )

I want to keep these entries public for as long as I can, meaning I want to avoid topics that certain people, should they have an interest in searching for my content, might come across.

So how about my visa.

From 2007 until 2014, I had an E-7 work visa, and it was sponsored by the one company I had worked for up until that point. I was lucky to ( Read more... )

A couple days ago I received an email from, of all things, LiveJournal, congratulating me on my 20th anniversary of being on this platform. Apparently I had signed up 20 years ago, and my last post was in June 2010.

It says I have 10 listed friends. I do not expect any of them to still be using this platform. I will write as if no one is.

Since ( Read more... )

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