Yeah, today I woke to find myself still a little sick from this damnable cold, but more importantly (maybe) I am now, officially, 30 years old. Doesn’t feel much different unless you think hard about it. I’m not gonna.

I’m sitting on the bus, barely able to stifle the urge to sing the harmony part on the Stanley Brothers’ rendition of Over in the Gloryland, and realizing that the idea of going to heaven to play in an angel band is a beautiful one, and says a lot about what it’s like to be in a band with your good friends. Waking up to yet another friendly SMS message on my phone, this one observing, correctly, that what I’m doing with my free time these days is really quite exciting and fun. Standing in a darkened room, back to …

Well, it’s about 24 hours (Korean time) till my birthday officially starts, and what I did I do this evening? I had dinner with the guys in the band, and recorded a track for my friend Dae Gui’s CD. It’s quite pretty, really, and I hope he puts it online so that I too can share it on my site. It took some doing, about two and a half hours for a few little sax parts, but I was starting from scratch so that’s not so bad. And I think, once it’s mixed down, it should really come out nice. …

Shawn just pointed out that there’s an upside-down pentagram pentacle on the sign of the university where we work, which is a Christian university. Do you see it? You can click on the image to see it nice and big. We in the office wonder exactly what this may signify… but register very little surprise.

So the day’s been kind of busy, even though I’m not really teaching much today. I woke to a text-message from a very nice friend who wished me luck on the first day of classes. After that, I rushed to school and started my first class, the thirty students of which only one showed up. The next class was populated by a bunch of good kids from the freshman class of law students I taught last term, which was a pleasant surprise. After lunch, there was a very mixed-up test invigilation, in which nobody knew what the hell was going …

Gord: “So, what’s your major?” Student: “Jesus God.” I’d kind of forgotten. Ah well…

Well, this is pretty cool. It looks like I get about 1000 visitors a month to my website. Of course, judging by the search results and the comments, I think most of the stable group of readers is somewhat small, but clever, mind… and a lot of people get here by some weird, dumbass searches. Still, I am pleased with this kind of traffic. Wonder how to increase it still more? Hmm.

Yeah, I got some fresh basil and dried lemongrass up in Seoul, and I made some, had Myoung over for dinner last night. It was a good talk and I think a good dinner too. But it’s even better the next day, as with most curries (I find). When it sits at night the flavours blend more deeply and it’s wonderful. Ahhhhhhh. That’s today’s lunch. Woo hoo.