Yes, it’s test week. Students are scurrying like little frightened mice, conversational English professors have that, “Uh, I heard this conversation ten times today already!”, and the whole campus is abuzz with a strange energy. Speaking of strange energies: a nice young girl student asked me out twice today, and didn’t seem to take the hint right away when I talked about my girlfriend at length, and when I told her that no, I couldn’t go to the movies with her. However, a little later she said she might go and see the suggested movie with her friends instead. I’m …

If you comment here, it may not show up for a day or two. I’m not exactly sure why, but the comments function isn’t working all that well. I’ll ask the people at my hosting provider to look into it but I suspect I’ll have to reinstall and reimport everything and while I’m doing all that I may as well migrate to the new Movable Type, as it looks to me as if multi-author blogging isn’t something I’m about to start doing here and now. So for the next week or so, if your comments don’t show up for a …

Here’s a picture of my sister Annie with her our my nephew Nathaniel. Isn’t he adorable? Isn’t she lucky? Why is she lucky? Well, you know, I am lucky too. Living in Asia can be a headache sometimes but it can also be fascinating, fun, fantastic, in addition to the other F-words I use on other days. Health care is cheap (in Korea anyway) and if I were in better health my wisdom tooth would be out right now, for maybe the price of a few beers with friends. But the hard bit is being so far from so many …