Charlie gave me this. (Link deleted since the site has changed radically. Try this instead. Probably not the same thing, but… it’s fun.) I should know by now that Charlie always gives me weird things, but they still always surprise me. We humans are such a weird species.
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UPDATE (20 March 2013): For the curious, here’s the scarf image. Nice enough that I may make a banner from it… Original Post: The handkerchief that Sun Hee (one of my students, who also works in the office at my workplace) bought for me in Japan is very pretty. It’s a cute scene of little children playing in the fields of Japan, jumping rope and chasing butterflies. You may note that is the new background image of this webpage. I’ll be changing the layout so you can see it better, soon, but until then, have a look at the scarf …
Basically I am cutting and pasting from an email to a friend here. Let’s see. The folk village I went to on Saturday with my friend was fun. Pictures coming soon, probably tomorrow. Will be buying a digicam this week, probably. Today one of my old students — who is now someone else’s student, a little girl names Su Yeon — brought me a nice big bottle of bok bun ja sent by her mom! (Raspberry wine, purportedly with powerful effects on a man’s virility… which I can neither confirm nor deny.) She didn’t even bring one for her new …
I note that, yes, more and more of my posts of late have been in the gord’s life/life in korea categories. I have a bunch of draft posts about crossdressing African child soldiers, and about Bob Hope, and other things, but I’ve had no time to develop much about this stuff. Anyway, I will say a tiny bit about my short term plans: I will be working for two more weeks, and then during the third week I will be briefly going to Osaka to get my new work visa processing done. It’s a paid-for trip (necessary as it’s required …