You know that point when you’re so busy that additional stress just doesn’t even register? You’re stressed out, sure, but you don’t notice because you have no time to actually think that stress over, basically? That’s how I am now. It’s not so much like I feel stressed, and now even more stressed out… it’s more like, well, this isn’t something I can deal with now, so I’ll leave it aside till next week; and oh, less free time this weekend, after having worked all week at camp? Well, okay, I’ll cuss about it for a couple of minutes since …
Month: January 2005
Medicine Dodge
Ha ha! I dodged a camp meeting… well, not really. It’s more like this: the last time I waited until after the camp meeting to go to the doctor, I ended up paying $30 for the consultation and meds, plus it involved about two hours of waiting at the ER in the local big hospital closest to the university, and the doc looked at only one of my problems instead of both. Since normally the consultation and meds for one visit total to about $3-5, I thought I’d miss a meeting and save myself a lot of money. I hardly …
More On ‘Lost’
You know, from the discussion you see online, you’d think the Koreans in the TV show “Lost” are central characters. Well, I can’t say for sure that they aren’t, since I’ve only watched as far as Episode 3 so far—everything else is still just an incoming file, for me, but the first thing to remember is that these characters are not any more central to the story than others, and actually seem quite peripheral. It’s not as if a main character is an evil Korean guy. He’s not a villain, he’s just a guy among many on the island. The …
Whaaaaaaaaaaaa?
What’s this? Oranckay reports that North Korea has pledged US $150,000 to the tsunami relief fund. Thanks to a link provided by the Marmot, to an article at North Korea Zone, I just watched a video from North Korea, which is online at the Joongang Daily you can see it here, a direct link that should open it in Windows Media Player—if not, paste the link into WMP or whatever you like to use). You can also see some interesting NK photography here. Why doesn’t North Korea use that money for a North Korea relief fund? Look at those kids. …
Kim Ku Speech
From an old archived post at Phil Cotsford’s locomote site, I found a link to a speech by Kim Ku which is somewhat interesting in its discussion of the relation between Confucianism, fascism, and modernization.