Day: Who cares?
Meant to post this last Wednesday, not really keeping track of days anymore because y'know, that takes effort, and it makes me feel less guilty if I go a couple of weeks without posting.
It's my birthday, as well as the first day of the Chinese lunar new year. I am slightly hung over even though I got sick last night after mixing beer and soju. We were out drinking with the new teacher from the elementary school, a guy from Minnesota who seems pretty cool. It is apparently tradition for employers to give a gift to their employees on the lunar new year, but while Korean teachers got a box of dried fish, the foreign teachers got a gift bag of ham and ham-related paraphenalia, presumably because they thought we would consider their dried fish to be about a 7 on the dagnasty scale. My washing machine is broken for some unknown reason, and my boss told me that someone will probably be over to fix it next week. This is nice because it does need fixing and I don't have to deal with it, but in the meantime I am without clean clothes.
Nerd alert: I screwed my computer up trying to convert my Wubi ubuntu to a normal partition, and spent several days trying to fix it. back to normal now, and with significantly less bloat after a reinstall of windows and deleting that particular partition. Not giving up on Linux yet, but I'm less than thrilled that I didn't get a windows CD when I bought my laptop, it required a certain level of ingenuity on my part.
I also went to see a 200 year old castle in Suwon, which was cool, but didn't get to walk the 6km circumference of the wall or do any touristy stuff like shoot arrows. I hear they only let the foreigners do that sort of thing, Koreans aren't allowed to do it.
The big news is that Namdaemun, the 610 year old southern city gate was burned down yesterday, and arson is suspected. As for any important news, expect Wikipedia to be the most accurate account. link
Expect pictures up tomorrow, too much to do today at work.
It's my birthday, as well as the first day of the Chinese lunar new year. I am slightly hung over even though I got sick last night after mixing beer and soju. We were out drinking with the new teacher from the elementary school, a guy from Minnesota who seems pretty cool. It is apparently tradition for employers to give a gift to their employees on the lunar new year, but while Korean teachers got a box of dried fish, the foreign teachers got a gift bag of ham and ham-related paraphenalia, presumably because they thought we would consider their dried fish to be about a 7 on the dagnasty scale. My washing machine is broken for some unknown reason, and my boss told me that someone will probably be over to fix it next week. This is nice because it does need fixing and I don't have to deal with it, but in the meantime I am without clean clothes.
Nerd alert: I screwed my computer up trying to convert my Wubi ubuntu to a normal partition, and spent several days trying to fix it. back to normal now, and with significantly less bloat after a reinstall of windows and deleting that particular partition. Not giving up on Linux yet, but I'm less than thrilled that I didn't get a windows CD when I bought my laptop, it required a certain level of ingenuity on my part.
I also went to see a 200 year old castle in Suwon, which was cool, but didn't get to walk the 6km circumference of the wall or do any touristy stuff like shoot arrows. I hear they only let the foreigners do that sort of thing, Koreans aren't allowed to do it.
The big news is that Namdaemun, the 610 year old southern city gate was burned down yesterday, and arson is suspected. As for any important news, expect Wikipedia to be the most accurate account. link
Expect pictures up tomorrow, too much to do today at work.