I don’t mean to be nasty about this. I really am wondering. So are most of the people I work with, and most of the foreigners I know personally in Korea. So if anyone can offer me some explanation, it would be very nice. I have found that that during the summer months, Koreans’ sense of a comfortable working temperature is, in general, on average, close to my sense of a comfortable working temperature. Sometimes I’ve preferred it a little cooler, and sometimes it has been Koreans I’ve worked with who preferred their office environment a little cooler than my …
Month: November 2005
Book #31: The American Religion
This review has been a long, long time in coming. I’ve been distracted by too many things, and I kick myself now noting that the research of the subject has itself proved to be a distraction from the project which launched it — the drafting of a novel set in a future American cold war — but in any case, I felt in September that I needed more background on the intersection of religion and politics in America, and the book has served as inspiration in some ways, frustrating as it has been in others. Bloom’s text is not so …
You Know You’ve Seen Too Many Episodes This Week When…
… you find, in mid-conversation with a friend, or on waking in the morning, that the theme song is running through your head. Even when the theme song is as good as this show’s, or when the show is as good as the one Lime and I have been overwatching. Even then, you know you’ve seen it too many times if the theme song is there and won’t go away.
Flightplan
After having thought a little over the Jodi Foster film Flightplan, which I saw last night with Lime, I am of two minds. Spoilers follow.
Holy Crap!
You know, funny things happen in my family. I was just informed by my father that my Mom went on a last-minute trip… …to UGANDA. Yes, really. But she’ll be right back home soon.