I’m on a roll, I guess. After revising and expanding and basically rewriting most of Ogallala, I realized it was too long to send to the market I was hoping to send it to, and so I decided to rework another story I’d been saving up for criticism. Be warned, spoilers, so if you’re planning on critting it, read no farther.
Category: GENERAL
Dear Libya, Dear Bulgaria
UPDATE: 17 Dec. 2014: Turns out that, after years of torture and horror, they were actually set free: By the look of it from this detailed report, the whole proceedings seem to have been a big bread-and-circus for the paranoid masses… well, and a fundraising effort as well: On July 24, 2007—eight and a half years after their arrest on charges of intentionally infecting children with the HIV virus in a Libyan pediatric hospital—the six health professionals were freed from jail and immediately extradited to Bulgaria. Upon arrival in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, they were officially pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi …
Santa and Pascal’s Wager
Melissa Lipscomb’s latest domestic disturbance is up. It’s about all the Christmas lies that parents tell, and an interesting one. The following passage made me laugh out loud: A few days ago Adam left the house and used his cell phone to call Alec in the guise of Santa with a timely reminder that calling people “idiot” was liable to provoke the direst consequences. It’s a bit soon to tell, but I can report that Alec hasn’t used the word again since then. I personally don’t remember ever believing in Santa, though I guess a forecast of my philosophical future …
It’s Snowing, It’s Snowing!
It was the first big dump of snow this winter, today, at least in Bucheon. I didn’t see much snow in Seoul, though. Lime wrote some kind of exam. Apparently every intern in half of Seoul, Incheon, Bucheon, etc. was in the same place, writing the same test. We met for coffee and… Then we had some pho after. It comes with hot Jasmine tea. There’s a good little pho place in Hongik, where we sometimes go. I hope she won’t mind me posting this pic, as it’s blurry. But she might. Then we wandered around, and finally had dinner …
iMac G3, Strawberry Flavour
Well, now on the desk in my office there are two computers running: in Intel Jooyontech PC running Ubuntu Linux, and a Strawberry iMac G3 — you know, the blobject kind of thing like the one pictured on the right. The former I bought several years ago from a Korea-blogger named Shawn, not too long before his unfortunate suicide in China. The iMac, the more recent addition to my roomful of PCs, was given to me by another professor down the hall named Nico. I plugged in my wireless laptop and keyboard to see whether it’d work for me, and …
Dozens of Hours Down, Three Hours to Go.
I have precisely three classes left this semester, each one hour long. Well, actually, fifty minutes, but you get the idea. This evening, a final-exam postmortem with my English Through Drama class, and a final meeting with my evening Intermediate Composition class, where the students will write me a letter, at my request, about what they’ve learned in the last 15 weeks. Tomorrow morning, I’ll have another one-hour meeting with my other Composition students and they’ll do the same thing. From then on, it’s all just about assigning final grades, marking one written final exam, and wading my way through …
32 Questions
ganked from badassbroccoli: o1. my uncle once: rode a motorbike all around rural Quebec. o2. never in my life: have I been as happy as I am now. o3. when i was five: I had to wear a patch on my good eye, and banged into everything in my way when I went walking. o4. high School is: no kind of place to learn anything. o5. i once met: the Dalai Lama. o6. there’s this girl i know who: who writes a lot about gay and transgendered people in my writing course, and who has, perhaps for this reason, begun …
Flickring
I’ve added loads of photos to my Flickr account–linked in the sidebar–in the last few days. Today, I added shots from today, an outing with Lime around Bucheon. Users on my contacts list can see more pics, including pics of Lime, who’s forbidden public posting of any pictures of her, for reasons I’ve discussed before on this blog. Anyway, lots of new pics to see. I’m making this pro account worth the price.
Slouching Towards Christmas
Feeling sick. Not doing much of anything right now. Vegging. Surfing. Gonna watch a movie. I’m hoping to kick this cold by next week. I have a somewhat busy week ahead, as the last real week of classes for the semester. Play performance Monday. Tuesday, a lecture and review for an exam. Wednesday and Thursday, I’m having the writing students do an unusual assignment — writing me letters about my class. Thursday, a lecture on “The Canadian Identity”. Then that’s it. A final exam on the following Tuesday, and piles of essays to read but a lot of time to …
Such Denial, But Also Some Cool Awareness, and a Brilliant Film Idea
So one of my students raised, in a smaller-group discussion in class, the idea that Dr. Hwang Woo-Seok was defrauded by Americans who stole his work–scientific espionage!–and then sent fake results under his name to Nature.