UPDATE (24/11/2005): Uh, what happened? The roads weren’t blocked this time, nothing like last year when they were jammed insanely tightly. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, actually. Maybe I was misinformed, but I wasn’t the only one… other people at work had heard the same as me. If you do, please give them something nice tonight. For many of them, tomorrow is going to be a brutal day. Yes, tomorrow is the day of the University Entrance Exams. It’s a day of unbelievable stress, of pressure, of anxiety and it’s also the release from a year (or …

I know, if you’re not a registered user, it looks like I’m mainly writing about EFL stuff. You have no idea what’s being posted, here, in terms of the full variety, unless you’re a subscribing user and signed in. All kinds of stuff about my writing projects, my thoughts on recent American politics (and future American politics), expat life in Korea, and all kinds of other stuff are all popping up… for signed-up users. Don’t put it off… it’s such a short process, and you get so much more out of the site.

Thanks to a comment from EFL Geek, I was reminded that trackbacks were not working on my site. Well, it looks like it’s working now; not just if you ping manually, but the autodetect seems to be working. That’s cool. Phew! Let me know if it doesn’t work with your particular blogging software, please, my dear readers!

Those who know me well have heard me point out my doubts regarding the wisdom of Korea’s adopting the TOEIC test for business English as the litmus test for English ability in the country. I won’t restate my objections here, but I will say that they do not take away from how happy I am for Lime, who just got an excellent score on the first TOEIC exam she has ever written. She wrote it, it seems, out of curiosity, and after only a month’s preparation. Many people (including some of her friends) take classes at language schools between subsequent …

This review has been a long, long time in coming. I’ve been distracted by too many things, and I kick myself now noting that the research of the subject has itself proved to be a distraction from the project which launched it — the drafting of a novel set in a future American cold war — but in any case, I felt in September that I needed more background on the intersection of religion and politics in America, and the book has served as inspiration in some ways, frustrating as it has been in others. Bloom’s text is not so …

You know, funny things happen in my family. I was just informed by my father that my Mom went on a last-minute trip… …to UGANDA. Yes, really. But she’ll be right back home soon.

I’ve never even used a Palmpilot. Ah well… Which OS are You? (via oddunout)

Julia’s comment on this post was comment #2000 on my blog. This entitles her to one very nice Korean handpainted fan which I’ll be posting her very soon. (I plan on posting a lot of things very soon, but I really will indeed be posting these things, doubt me not!) I am glad that someone who has posted as many comments as Julia lucked out in this case, as she has made a strong impression on me as a regular reader, and a helpful one, too, pointing out link errors or suggesting other interpretations of things. But I also want …