I am not sorry to see that year end. Went up to Seoul with peeps from work and had a pretty good time at a New Year's Eve party at the Dragon Hill Lodge. Now I've got to get my act together and go to work (with a newfound appreciation for the bus system here... as opposed to the train, which takes one hour and forty-five minutes, the bus took 45 ( Read more... )

I went to the pool today and swam 2k, or at the least, 1.85k, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't miscount a 150m set in there. It's still not as much as I likely could be doing, but too much exercise can be just as bad as too little, especially when you're trying to get back onboard with the whole thing ( Read more... )

One thing I've been struggling with, lately, is "boredom eating." Especially since I stopped smoking, I notice that when I go to eat something, however healthy or unhealthy, it always takes more for me to feel like I can stop eating. I realize that our bodies are not well-adapted to overabundance, but even still, there seems to be a psychological ( Read more... )

So I'm considering returning to Facebook, maybe rolling out a revamped page that's much more streamlined, in short, give in to the whole social networking phenomenon that I have largely been able to avoid in the past year, like an internet Luddite. Like, having not been on Facebook, I've felt great about not having to worry about tagged pictures ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas!

Blessèd Yule!

Violence-free Kwanzaa!

Happy (Belated) Festivus!

Prosperous New Year!

Saturnalia Felix!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Joyous Early Hogwatchnight!

Dune with blue furries and the Deku Tree ( Read more... )

So this month has pretty much been one long suckfest. The exception to this was going hiking with Molly around Anyang, and that general evening of hanging out, talking, etc. Otherwise, I stopped smoking which sounds all awesome, but it just means that now if I so much as look at food it shows up around my gut, and I've been eating like f'ing ( Read more... )

It's like Steampunk, Scifi, and Transcendentalism all conspired to build a personal library.

Seriously, check out the link if you have ever, currently do, or will ever consider yourself a geek or nerd of any stripe.

then check out these libraries.

I'm having a few Rolling Rocks before bed, reading an NYT Magazine article on marriage-building, before going in for another 12 hour shift of wikipedia binges, the Graveyard of Empires, playing secretary for a dozen-odd people who get calls from morons back in the States that don't understand what fourteen hours in the future means on the weekends ( Read more... )

So I would call today a qualified success, as days go ( Read more... )