tharp42

I PITY THE FOOL

tharp42 Apr 02, 2011 14:35

Yesterday was my dad's birthday. He would have been 70, but, like my mother, he only reached the age of 66. They died less than a year apart, and though the wound still bleeds, it has gotten better. It really has. What was once a gnawing sadness is now just a long sigh ( Read more... )

busan, korea

BEEN A LONG TIME, BEEN A LONG LONELY LONELY LONELY LONELY LONELY TIME

tharp42 Mar 31, 2011 10:47

But Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes, I am back.

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busan, blogging, korea

YOU KNOW IT'S GETTING BAD...

tharp42 Nov 30, 2010 14:19

...when even your best friend has had enough of your shit. This is actually good news for all parties involved.

Their days are numbered indeed.

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THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS?

tharp42 Nov 29, 2010 21:44

I was in class last Tuesday when I got the news. I was teaching my usual interminable two hour slog to the same three listless college boys, retreading a lesson from a book that I have squeezed dry for the last five years, when my phone buzzed. I quickly glanced at the screen and saw that it was from my girlfriend ( Read more... )

Korean Government: "Foreign Teachers AIDSier Than Foreign Whores"

tharp42 Oct 26, 2010 13:15

Oh, Korea. After some years here you get used a general level of ridiculousness, double standards, xenophobia, and straight-up fuckwittery. It's par for the course, and unless you want to suffer aneurisms daily, it is best just to put your head down, plow ahead, and let the water slide off your back, as it were. But sometimes the powers that be ( Read more... )