Big Move

Well, here’s the big news, for those of you who didn’t see a mass email from me: I have taken a department job over at Jeonju University. It begins at the end of August, so I will be on staff at Wonkwang until the mid-August holidays, and then I will begin over at Jeonju University at the end of August. For now, I’m just getting my head around the idea of the holidays I’ll be enjoying, and trying to make sure the paperwork gets done properly and quickly. It’s not a huge change, either financially or in terms of my …

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it’s alright…

yeah, it’s alright, or it’s gonna be. those of you who know what I am talking about, know what I mean. those of you who don’t can find out by buying me a beer. yeah, it went okay, I’ll be fine. best of all possible outcomes. and no I am not cynically quoting Candide. onwards and upwards.

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Dreams

I’ve been sleeping longer hours these days, because of exhaustion. I was, for a time, extensively planning three classes and trying to get full handouts ready for a couple of those classes every day. (Things have chilled out considerably now that I’ve realized at least one class explicitly doesn’t want handouts.) There was actually a day where I was so damned tired that I started getting chest pains and slept 12 hours at night… and felt much better the next day, thank goodness. But anyway, I’ve been having some very very weird dreams. Two that I recall are worth writing …

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A Day At The Beach, Update

It seems that the little dog SaeNal died a little while after that day we spent on the beach. I found this out after making a stupid unwitting joke to Chong-Sook about wanting to make dog soup with her (SaeNal was a she). I guess she was in a new home, because Chong-Sook had to give her away, and she died falling off a table, the poor thing. I wasn’t close to the dog, so as much as a I feel bad for Chong-Sook, who really loved SaeNal, for me it’s more an experience of strangeness. I always find it weird …

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Last Night…

Yesterday was a very frustrating day. Our all-day practice turned out to be a lot of waiting and waiting, followed by only a few hours of real work. (Today, we can hope, will be different.) We played at the Led Zeppelin club’s 1-year anniversary, and then took off for other pastures. We ended up at a popular foreigner hangout in Jeonju, which is funny because the popular foreigner hangout there seems to me different than the on in Iksan. In my town it seems a place for kid stuff, but in Jeonju I like at least some of the crowd. …

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