So here’s what I have learned in the last few days… 1. It’s amazing how radically your view of a situation can change. Sometimes pain is self-inflicted, and very often I think the effects of emotional pain of this type can be overcome far more easily than one imagines. 2. It’s amazing how quickly back pain can result from improperly executing the head motions in the butterfly stroke. We’ve just begun learning to do it. I made a joke in Korean about how our classs used to look like a bunch of retarded frogs, but now we look like retarded …

GatorLog: All things Weblog This fellow left a trackback on my website, but it’s not working I think I shall have to spend Thursday figuring out why. Anyway, it was very nice of you, Gatorlog, and I really appreciate your thoughts and explanations. I realize that power means different things in Korean. I knew about the electricity because I tried saying it to one of the office girls the other day, my CD player is out of “him” and she looked at me like I was crazy for a second. Anyway, your thoughts were interesting. And believe me, I find …

Here is page about TrackBack Development, and I’m just using it for a test on my own trackback system, which should be working but which isn’t. Hm…

Here’s the new stuff in my life… 1. After a few botches at the local hair shop I sometimes go to, I told the hair shop girl to just go ahead and shave off my hair, including my precious sideburns. (No worries, they’ll grow back.) So I’m now at 12mm of scalp hair. I like it. The kids in my classes told me I look like a crazy man, but the adults’ reviews have been a little more mixed, from “Oh, I liked it better the other way,” to “You look like very healthy man now!” So… anyway, it’s cooler …

Well, the thing about getting a job as a professor is that everyone is pickier about records. So, today, I sent over a lot of my paperwork. My MA diploma is already over at Jeonju University, but my BA diploma (in fact, certification letter as a diploma took too long to have printed off) and transcripts, and the letter releasing me from my current contract were sent to Jeonju as a registered post today. (They’ll arrive tomorrow.)