Getting my prokinetics won't be easy, but it will be necessary.  Not sufficient, however, because living--and getting a completee night's sleep--with GERD caused by intestinal dysmotility requires following two rules ( Read more... )

Oh I had a good day today. I'm plugging in the TicToc mp3 player (which is sadly showing its age) to try to write the playlist that carried me home. Somehow it was picking mostly songs that I'd added recently to it--odds are it was not on shuffle. But it spiced and punctuated an already good time I'd had ( Read more... )

I've got some pictures but I've been careful about shooting for no good reason.  You can't get a charger for the Pentax here apparently, and I haven't tried the charger plus travel converter.  In theory a battery is neither heat-generating nor software-enhanced and thus should be fine with a converter.  In my experience Korean wall plugs can fry ( Read more... )

but no, I won't photograph the mess before I clean it up.  Kind of a contradiction, eh?

I didn't photograph the cute guy at the meet today.  Handsome more than cute, though utterly poisonous to me.  He'd basically said My friends tell me maybe I'm attractive sort of.  Not his exact words by any stretch, but 'Look at me!' with a half dozen hedge ( Read more... )

The Korean fast-food chain (and pretty much the only fast-food in this town) has been making a thing called a "Ladyburger".  It's a lower-calorie, moister version of their regular burger with more vegetables.  This makes me happy.  It was dinner tonight, and that's not the first time.

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One of my classes got their work done early and asked to rewatch Backstreet Boys "All I Have to Give" which I'd used as a listening exercise.  We had some time so I put on "Larger Than Life", my personal favorite BSB song.  Why?  Because it talks about fame as a mixed blessing, in a way that seems honest.  "We don't mean to be rude when we run from ( Read more... )

My head's a bit swimmy, but pleasantly so, and that would explain the strange looks I got at the grocery store.  Or it could just be that the store was crowded and my hair obviously needs washed ( Read more... )

So the G20 is in town.  Even if I had much interest I wouldn't be able to go hang out and see anything.  According to the Korea Times (the more conservative of two English papers, and the only one I can get in Hanam), the train won't stop there for the days it's on, and the whole COEX complex is a fortress--temporary walls with barbed wire in some ( Read more... )

First, something from my mailbox that I meant to post earlier:
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/opinion/28tue4.html
Google apparently has a tracker to show which governments have shut off access to which sites.  It's hoped that publicizing such data will shame those gov's into being more open.
My question is--where the Hell is it?  Is it blocked from here, ( Read more... )

Taco Bell taco supreme here is almost exactly like it is in California, maybe a scoche spicier.  The Crunchwrap Supreme, is different but I like it better--appreciably smaller and noticeably spicier.  Not worth the hour and twenty it takes me to to get to Taco Bell, at least not more than once in awhile.  But good, very good, very authentically ( Read more... )