I’ve finished the first day of camp, just fine, but I came home to pick up some bedding and my PC and I found a big piece of dog poo in the inbox of my email. It’s an email all in Korean, asking why the guy got an F in his English class. Not a single word of English, not even an attempt to communicate with me in the language I was grading him on. And he’s wondering why he got an F. And it’s not signed with a name at the end, but the user’s handle is the name …
Month: January 2005
New Year Post…
My goodness, I’ve not had a chance to post a New Year’s post. I shall have to get to it tomorrow evening, before the exhaustion sets in (As it now is doing…) but for now I’ll note that I have a lot to bne happy about from last year, and I’m looking forward to 2005. Which is a great feeling. I wish more people in the world could feel that way.
From Ritu
Ritu links to this Jared Diamond article, The Ends of the World as We Know Them. It’s about the collapse of societies and it is timely in that way that it’s really always a timely issue, though sometimes more timely than usual.
Getting used to a new keyboard…
It’s something I’m usually not crazy about, getting used to a new keyboard, but when it’s attached to a computer as nice as the one I am using, I don’t mind. My first blog-fueled purchase: a used PC, from Shawn at Korea Life Blog. I met him and Julie at the Yongsan Train Station, and they’re nice folks to boot. But what a hellishly long day, going up to Seoul and coming back with only an hour’s break between. Ah well… it’s worth it. Now, to pack my junk and get to sleep. Gotta be at the school tomorrow morning, …
Movies I’ve watched recently
During holidays, one such as myself has a much greater amount of time to devote to such a pastime as movie-watching. Well, I’ve gotten through a few films this holiday and thought I would share my thoughts: Trainspotting. Okay, it was the third time I’ve seen it since its release. This things that hit me the strongest were the absolute sarcasm of the soundtrack—the way it’s used with the images, something I’d forgotten about—and the way that still shots are used near the beginning and at a couple of moments later on. It reminded me of some other films composed …