Here I am again on runabout, though it’s a mild one. I had class this morning, and unlike my previous classes, this one didn’t seem to scare the students very much. They seemed to leave the room with a good, happy feeling. I’m a little worried that I came on too strong in my other classes by letting students see my course outline, which in some cases had too much detail. It’s a symptom of nerves that one overprepares, as everyone knows… everyone except students, who just think, “Oh my God, this guy is asking SO much of us!” Anyway, …

To all who wished me a happy birthday, by the way, thanks! I’ve been busy like mad, and will remain so for a while, but I did appreciate it.

I just quickly checked my email on the local free network, and thought I’d post this before I go see Lime for a bit, before my next class starts up. When I arrived in Incheon this afternoon, I was (of course) stopped by the Customs Officers, but they didn’t just once-over my bag and wave me through. No, no, they asked me to follow them to a side room, and a long, confusing discussion that I couldn’t really follow commenced. At the end of it, I learned that, on that strange and perplexing evening when I first arrived in Korea, …

Well, I was planning to post, “I’m Here,” as the follow-up to the last post, but now I find myself on my way again. I was in my apartment by 5:00pm and Lime dropped by with coffee, the angel, and after that we went around Bucheon for a while. At first I thought I wasn’t tired, but after we had a nice dinner, I found myself absolutely exhausted, so we got us some sleep. This morning, when I woke up, I couldn’t bear to start unpacking. I had the yogourt I’d bought last night, and some orange juice, and just …

Well, almost. The mover is booked to be here at 11:00am, and then I’ll find out whether all this stuff will fit onto his truck. I am sure hoping very ardently that it will. I have some vague idea where the few boxes of breakables are, but most of them are books and therefore heavy enough that they’ll probably not get blown off the truck. Anyway, I should probably just check my email, finish my awful breakfast, and get my sweater on, because it’s a damned chilly day. I’ll next post from my new place in Bucheon. More about that …

Living in an apartment for more than two years is really unusual for me. I’ve spent two and a half years in the one I’ve lived in since I came to Jeonju, and over that time, I have learned a ot about how to make this place work, be comfortable, be livable. It seems to me that to lose all that accumulated knowledge would be a waste, so I’ve written up some of it for the next tenant who moves into this place. It’s almost like passing along one’s dog, or something — I want her to know it a …

Saskatoon was freezing cold when I was there, at one point at night, -20 celcius plus nasty winds; but here in Korea, today felt just like spring. It was warm outside in the sun, warm enough anyway to feel nice with the sun on me, and not really wintry at all. Today I did a lot of packing. I haven’t readjusted to Korean time, so I’m still waking at 4am, 4:30am, times like that. I’ve had lunch breaks and some breaks online — I find such things necessary to reduce the stress that the commenter on my previous post mentioned …

I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. I hate moving. That should tell you how I’m doing today. I have done a lot of the packing, but have a couple of important things I need to do, like cancel internet service, and call the water guy to pick up the water cooler tomorrow morning (and to pay him for the weeks during which I didn’t order water), and of course there’s always just a couple of more boxes to get done. But this time, it really is something like just six or seven more boxes …