Last night I was up late doing some laundry — a lot of my own, plus some of Lime’s, which needed to get done last night so that she could bring it back to the hospital early today. The place where she’s working doesn’t even provide a single washing machine for those members of staff working 80-120 hour weeks, if you can imagine that… their one night off is when they get to go somewhere else to do their laundry. Anyway, she was dead asleep but I was waiting for the dryer cycle to finish drying the load, so I …
Category: GENERAL
Not So Bad, For Sometime Tired
Twenty-some minutes on the treadmill and varying paces; some weights for the upper body; about five minutes on the exercycle (I couldn’t handle any more of it); and a bunch of situps. I’ve been havinf aches and pains since, from the weights, but they good aches and pains, not bad ones.
Translated From the Korean
Text messages between Lime and myself today: Lime: Honey, honey! It’s snowing! Gord: Huh? That’s not snow! That’s just white rain. It doesn’t count as snow if it melts when it hits the ground. At least, not if it melts completely. But it is getting chilly outside. By my definition, it doesn’t snow much in Korea, mind you.
Head Above L’Eau
Just sticking my head above water to say I’m busy. I have sent out six stories today, to seven different markets (one was a simultaneous submission), and tomorrow I have a lecture to attend in the afternoon, and then some kind of Department variety show that I need to act as one of the judges for in the early evening. (The top three prizes are the equivalent of $100, $75, and, I think, $50 US.) The talent show almost got canceled because too few students signed up, but I managed to force some of the students in my English Through …
Submissions Out, So Back to the Grind
It’s pathetic to admit it, but the real reason I finally got off my butt and sent subsmissions out was because we had a challenge set up among my classmates from my Clarion West class, that we would send at least six stories out within the first three months after the end of the workshop. I barely made the deadline, but actually, it’s a good thing I held off. I caught a couple of things, such as the fact that in the beginning of “Soul Competency”, my Second Coming With a Twist story, the guy teaching English to The Lord …
AllConsuming Down?
Anyone else out there having this problem? I searched the Web for complaints but couldn’t find any. When I try to load AllConsuming.net nothing comes up… which has significantly slowed the loading speed of my own site, since I had a couple of feeds from my consumption lists on display on my pages. Has anyone else noticed this, either on my own site, or in terms of the original AllConsuming site? If it goes on much longer, I’ll have to cut the AllConsuming feed and if it’s not fixed in a few days I may migrate out. (I was looking …
Now Using Flickr
I’m now using Flickr to host my photos, as you can see from the new photo-block and link in the sidebar. I have uploaded a bunch, and with my pro account, I’ll be able to upload a bunch more. All I need to do is get around to doing it. I have 2 gigs of bandwith allowed me per month, so I think most of my decent photos from the last few years should be uploaded by the time next semester starts. Note that there will be some pics — shots of my girlfriend, and others — that will be …
Much better
Finally got back to the gym, and started out with a pretty serious, but not too painful, cardio workout. It came to 25 minutes of variable paces (averaging likely at 7.2 km/hr, but ranging from 4km/hr to 10 km/hr), and about 10 minutes of 20km/hr on the stationary bicycle. Not a bad start for having not gone to the gym for a couple of weeks!
the juggling underworld
The unpleasantness of going to the immigration office today, dealing with a staff that cannot speak English — I think it’s silly to demand that in coffeeshops and restaurants but good grief, a basically monolingual staff in an immigration office? — and of course the long wait, sitting beside people who seem to think nothing of playing video games on their phones at full blast, regardless of whether the repeated bleeping noise might, you know, annoy others or not. Along with discovering that my phone, miraculously fixed, is probably unmiraculously note quite fixed at all (it shuts itself off, still, …
Guess What Shuffle Demons Song is in my Head?
Not only because Kevin’s link to thi post by C. Buddha, either? Today, I met Lime in Hong Ik and we had dinner — Vietnamese — and a coffee. She’s very much enjoying the Korean translation of the Jared Diamond book I got for her, and she returned the giftiness with some nice Korean CDs from Purple Records. After that, we went our separate ways, she to the hospital and I to Bucheon. I had considered taking the slow train to Bucheon, and just sitting and reading, but thought, oh, if I catch the Rapid train to Dongincheon, which stops …