What To Say?

A friend recently asked how I’m doing, and I thought I might post something here, since I so rarely update this site. However, this is one of those questions it’s hard to answer.  Do I…  … go with how I pulled a muscle in my back the other day, and it hurt to breathe for about 24 hours, but now it’s slowly getting better? … talk about how I’m busily mashing together chunks of the Gumshoe ruleset and a hacked version of the Forged in the Dark system to run modern supernatural techno-/spy-thrillers? … delve into how, despite the exhaustion …

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Big Move

Well, here’s the big news, for those of you who didn’t see a mass email from me: I have taken a department job over at Jeonju University. It begins at the end of August, so I will be on staff at Wonkwang until the mid-August holidays, and then I will begin over at Jeonju University at the end of August. For now, I’m just getting my head around the idea of the holidays I’ll be enjoying, and trying to make sure the paperwork gets done properly and quickly. It’s not a huge change, either financially or in terms of my …

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A Day At The Beach, Update

It seems that the little dog SaeNal died a little while after that day we spent on the beach. I found this out after making a stupid unwitting joke to Chong-Sook about wanting to make dog soup with her (SaeNal was a she). I guess she was in a new home, because Chong-Sook had to give her away, and she died falling off a table, the poor thing. I wasn’t close to the dog, so as much as a I feel bad for Chong-Sook, who really loved SaeNal, for me it’s more an experience of strangeness. I always find it weird …

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