Not Really Her Bum

Before you get too riled up: that’s not really her bum. This is a Japanese product that’s on the market. The skirt has a picture of a bum printed on it. I found this on David Galbraith’s site. Sometimes what Koreans say about Japan goes too far, but sometimes I have to agree and say something very weird and vaguely sinister is going on over there in Tokyo. Certainly not all bad, but… kind of… well, hmmm.

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I’ve been blogged.

And not by who you think. I do have one friend who’s been blogging about me, but I’m not going to mention that because I’m shy about what she’s been blogging about… even though it’s very sweet and brings a smile to my face every time. And it’s less surprising for me because it’s in English. But… today I found out that I’ve been blogged by someone I’ve never even met. In Korean. It shouldn’t surprise me, of course. I’ve blogged people I never met, and I have even blogged in Korean. But still, it surprised me! I was looking …

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Korean Blog…

I’ve started posting on my Korean blog again. Maybe this will make me study a little harder? I want to improve, even if I don’t have a lot of people to practice with right now. But the site needs a major overhaul… the style is very boring and has been the same for a long time. And I also need to finish getting my English site updated (blogrolling list, a recent commenters feature, and so on) before I embark on any big style update on the Korean page.

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Crazy, Sane, Dating, and Single

Men Are Crazy for Women Who Are, Too Margaret Atwood wrote, in Lady Oracle, My mother’s two categories; nice men did things for you, bad men did things to you. And you hear a lot about how bad men are always being nasty to good women. Why don’t you hear those stories about how these supposedly good women gravitate to the bad men? One of my friends said to me recently, “If a woman is dating an asshole, she’s probably an asshole too… so they deserve one another.” This stuck in my head, especially after today finding out that one …

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