• Archive for October, 2007

    Achievements, Goals

    by  • October 31, 2007 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    Well, it’s goals and achievements time. For those who aren’t curious about this part of the writing process — where you look on your achievements and make new goals — feel free to skip this post and not look back.

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    One More Year

    by  • October 31, 2007 • PERSONAL, teaching in Korea • 2 Comments

    (I would have posted the title in Korean but something about my Linux installation on my office desktop is ganked and I never managed to get the Korean language input interface installed.) I got the news this morning. It looks like, pending official approval by the Prez1, my contract is being renewed for one...

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    Kangnam Microbrew with Charles

    by  • October 30, 2007 • PERSONAL • 5 Comments

    Charles at Liminality posted about our recent meetup in Kangnam at a beer/food buffet called Platinum. It’s a pretty good discussion — with pictures, good pictures — of a place well worth visiting (if you like beer) and all I have to add is that: Scots are human too. In fact, if you’re notScottish,...

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    Yay Interzone!

    by  • October 29, 2007 • WRITING • 4 Comments

    Yay to Interzone, for accepting my story “The Country of the Young” — a story I wrote for week 2 at Clarion West 2006. I couldn’t be happier, as I’ve been a fan of Interzone since I first got my hands on a copy, and the feedback included was very encouraging. Lime and I...

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    POV

    by  • October 28, 2007 • WRITING • 0 Comments

    One thing that fascinates me is how changing perspective changes a story completely. I was on the subway Friday night, to go meet Charles to go to a microbrew buffet in Kangnam — where a good time was had, by the way! — when I realized what I’d been doing wrong in “Dhuluma No...

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    Lee Myung Bak and Corruption

    by  • October 28, 2007 • KOREA • 0 Comments

    With all of the allegations of corruption that have been brought up against him, I’m amazed that the right-wing Presidential candidate Lee Myung Bak is actually still pulling 50% in the polls. I’m wondering whether the new-ish evidence I’m told has surfaced of his implication in the BBK price-manipulation fraud will be the needle...

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    Zocalo’s Questions

    by  • October 28, 2007 • KOREA, teaching in Korea • 0 Comments

    A blogger who goes by Zocalo left a comment linking to a recent post about imperialist white male English teachers in Asia, and I started to type a reply. The reply got long enough that I knew it’d be multiple comments in the post, so I’m putting it here instead. Before you go on,...

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