I just thought I’d point out the highlights of the week.
- Eun Hye and I had a discussion about why cow milk is so delicious, and why human milk is so sugary. There was no conclusion to the conversation.
- We ordered the first 10 issues of ãâµãÆÂ©Ã£ÆÂªÃ£ÆÂ¼Ã£ÆÅ¾Ã£ÆÂ³Ã©â¡â太éÆÅ½ from Amazon Japan. I need a change of pace from textbook study.
- My students called me a dirty criminal because I have facial hair. Apparently facial hair is what dirty criminals have in Korea. Come to think of it, I don’t see any beards around town.
- I discovered that I have no more vacation days for the remaining six months of my contract. It says I have 10 days of paid leave on my contract, and up to this point I had taken 5 days off (3 for my honeymoon, and 2 for the birth of my daughter), but the days the school is closed are taken from my days, too, according to the school director. Meaning that throughout the year, I would never have a choice on what days to take off. At least in Japan I got three week-long vacations, plus 5 days of my choosing, leaving me with about a month of vacation time a year.
- Related to the highlight above, I was super sick on Monday (probably from the stress of driving in Busan over the weekend! What’s with that place?!), and tried calling in sick, to which I was told was impossible (which is why the topic of my vacation days came up). So I went to work feeling like death warmed over.
- I was rudely awakened this morning (Saturday) at 8:30 and told to move my car because someone was moving from the apartment and needed the space. It’s currently 11:30 and there is still no moving van. The spot is still open. (I have tons of more stories like this, and related to no privacy even in your home, or just plain ridiculous hours at which something is done in an overly loud manner.)
- I considered making a second Coconut Monkey movie, but didn’t do anything about it. Come to think of it, that’s not a highlight at all.
- I checked out Beck’s new album, and another album by Deerhoof. “Who the hell is Deerhoof?” Just a band.
- I enrolled in a second insurance program. You can never have too much insurance in Korea. I am now enrolled in government insurance through work, medical insurance through a private company, and car insurance. Everything down to my pinkie toe is covered. I’m very fond of both of my pinkie toes and would like to keep them, or be compensated for their loss.
- I saw a boat on fire in the harbor yesterday, right next to my work, at 8:30 pm. There was very little effort put into extinguishing it. The police and fire department were considerably slow. I wanted to take pictures, but didn’t have a camera.
It was just an average week in Korea.
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December 19, 2006 at 3:37 am
sounds like a full week. did the people ever end up moving stuff using your parking space? and what is busan? it sounds like somewhere i wouldn’t want to go.
December 19, 2006 at 11:19 am
They moved their stuff around noon, the selfish bastards. They took up 3 parking spaces for half of the day, and didn’t use them. Well, they’re gone now, so good riddance.
Busan (Pusan, depending on which romanization you adhere to) is the second largest city in Korea. If Seoul was New York, Busan would be a combination of San Francisco and L.A. (S.F.’s hills and L.A.’s traffic) I prefer to get out of the big cities, though. Some people enjoy Busan, but mostly those same people don’t ever drive in the city.
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