Well, almost. The mover is booked to be here at 11:00am, and then I’ll find out whether all this stuff will fit onto his truck. I am sure hoping very ardently that it will. I have some vague idea where the few boxes of breakables are, but most of them are books and therefore heavy enough that they’ll probably not get blown off the truck. Anyway, I should probably just check my email, finish my awful breakfast, and get my sweater on, because it’s a damned chilly day. I’ll next post from my new place in Bucheon. More about that …

Living in an apartment for more than two years is really unusual for me. I’ve spent two and a half years in the one I’ve lived in since I came to Jeonju, and over that time, I have learned a ot about how to make this place work, be comfortable, be livable. It seems to me that to lose all that accumulated knowledge would be a waste, so I’ve written up some of it for the next tenant who moves into this place. It’s almost like passing along one’s dog, or something — I want her to know it a …

Saskatoon was freezing cold when I was there, at one point at night, -20 celcius plus nasty winds; but here in Korea, today felt just like spring. It was warm outside in the sun, warm enough anyway to feel nice with the sun on me, and not really wintry at all. Today I did a lot of packing. I haven’t readjusted to Korean time, so I’m still waking at 4am, 4:30am, times like that. I’ve had lunch breaks and some breaks online — I find such things necessary to reduce the stress that the commenter on my previous post mentioned …

I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. That should tell you how I’m doing today. I have done a lot of the packing, but have a couple of important things I need to do, like cancel internet service, and call the water guy to pick up the water cooler tomorrow morning (and to pay him for the weeks during which I didn’t order water), and of course there’s always just a couple of more boxes to get done. But this time, it really is something like just six or seven more boxes …