Confession

If I were any sort of real person I wouldn't sneak out of my apartment at midnight on a desperate hunt for corn chips. In one of the trendiest cities on the Asian continent. Even Eurasian continent. In pajama pants and dress shoes. Without socks. In a country that uses corn as a garnish.

God I wish I had a casual pair of shoes. And why oh why were there *that* many people using the elevator tonight? I've never seen that many co-tenants. And did I really have to go to the Family Mart on the main street? Only to settle for these things?

Quick update

Hey everyone,

Sorry to have left the blog standing for so long. I've sort of fallen into a routine just to grind through the semester, but its finally over. Summer is about to get brutal here, and we have a new teacher from Canada just in time for him to suffer. He's replacing the guy from Savannah who has been here for a year and three months, who was sadly the closest person to me on this continent.

The previous Korean president committed suicide last weekend, so that's dominated the news rather than North Korea's latest tantrum for attention. In other news, swine flu has arrived. A westerner brought it over to another institute. Everyone there got 10 days paid vacation, but the bad news is Koreans are hysterical about this whole epidemic. The drop in enrollment, as disease crazy Korean mothers whisked their germy little brats to another school, effectively closed an entire chain of hagwons.

Cross your fingers Avalon doesn't get hit or I'm out of a job! If you never heard I was going to be an executive consultant in my free time, then you're actually on the right page. The gig fell through being that someone who held the job previously asked for it back the day after it was offered to me.

Miss you guys

The Yardstick

There are several ways through which we could measure how far Korea is behind on race relations, but since I'm supposed to be working right now I will just give you this one. The students are reading a novel about a middle school boy who has a science accident and turns invisible. Adventure ensues. When asked to write about the novel, this is one yardstick by which we can guage civil rights progress in Korea. Lifted from sentence #1:

"Justin is a Negro then his friends are banter Justin."