finally... quiet time
no exclamation marks. it's been a long week, and i'm so glad to finally reach a weekend where i have nothing to do, really. sure, a meeting with my tutor, maybe dinner with a friend, and some damnable lesson plans to finish, but all in all, it should be restful, and then i have 3 days off next week. which, while not as wonderful as the vacation some of my friends have, is still pretty sweet.
tonight has been very chill, but i've enjoyed it. i caught up to the mid-season finale of Psych, and I really enjoyed it. The last season or so has been kinda touch-and-go; Shawn has been off his game and really needed to get his ass in gear, and I'm glad they finally pushed that. He's been so petty and insecure lately, and it was making him a less likeable character, not only to see those annoying bits of him that everyone has, but also because he hasn't done any growing up really. This whole season so far and a bit of the last has had quite a few of the guest characters throwing his immaturity in his face, and he hadn't responded well to that.
i feel strangely like this has been a very full week, though i don't know why. i've managed to make more of a dent in cleaning up my hard drive - that annoying 'unnamed artist' folder is now gone. i cleared out some old pictures and posted them to flickr, which was good - though there is a very long list of pictures i still need to organize and upload, and then i should actually sort through the uploads from my old blog. -sigh- eventually.
i finished a pair of gloves, the ones for the swap i'm doing, and sent them out yesterday. i also started a new pair, as well as beginning to crochet squares together for the ugly blanket.
on tuesday, i got one of my wisdom teeth removed. it wasn't all that bad - they said they would give me pain meds and then started pouring me some advil. i went to work as usual, and though i still have this gaping hole in my mouth that feels really weird, i think it will be good in a few days.
korean word of the day!
sarang-ni 사랑니 = wisdom teeth
this literally means 'love tooth', and i'm not sure of the exact reason but i read somewhere (and thought this myself) that it's because they come in later, around the age you start falling in love, and are hella painful.
next week is chuseok here in korea - kinda like thanksgiving, but more confucian. i get 3 days off in the middle of the week, and yesterday we had an activity day. we all dressed up in hanbok, teachers and kids, and played games, made songpyeon (rice cake dumpling things), and of course, took pictures. i still have pictures from LAST chuseok, but we won't talk about those right now. i got some cute shots, but my camera ran out of battery - even though it had told me the night before that it was fine. -sigh-
since the foreign teachers didn't have our own hanbok, our super rented some for us. for guys it's a shirt, vest, and a jacket, so no big deal as long as everything's long enough. for the girls it was a bit trickier in terms of fit. women's hanbok consists of a sheet of polyester/silk wrapped tent-like around you and tied across the bust, with a very short jacket over the top. this has to be the only time in my life i have ever felt like my breasts were too big - hanbok are not made for people with any sort of endowment. at all. also, because i'm a lot taller than most korean women (see picture below for reference), and hanbok are worn very long, mine was a little too short. i couldn't pull it down or the ties would show under my jacket.
this is my coteacher kriss (she's so cute!) and me, and as you can see, i dwarf her. the other shot was taken from far away and is not focused, but it lets you see the whole effect better. hopefully the photographers got some better pictures, since they insisted on taking them of the teachers as well.
See and download the full gallery on posterous
that's it for now! think i'm going to head off to bed... though i might cast on this 2nd glove, just to get started...