So, I've been here for almost 5 months now. I've been able to save up a decent amount of money, but I never looked at how much I was able to save exactly until a few days ago. Here's the breakdown for 1 month ( Read more... )

This is more of a post just to assert I'm not dead than anything else.A lot has happened but I forgot most of it and don't really have time for a detailed entry about everything (which is a bit of a shame). On the other hand, I started reading another Haruki Murakami novel called Kafka on the Shore. I'm almost done with the book, but I like it a ( Read more... )

It's been far longer than I would have liked since my last update, but I really don't have too much to say. The humid monsoon season is almost over with, which will be followed by a month of hot weather without the humidity. I crunched some numbers to see how much of my monthly paycheck was going towards food and utilities. It turns out that I'm ( Read more... )

I'm getting a lot busier at work. Well, it's not that I'm busier, it's that my classes have gone from 2 students to 5 students, or 3 students to 6 students. In other words, I have more kids to deal with in my classes. For the most part, the new kids are manageable compared to the older kids. But since the textbooks have changed a bit, I need to ( Read more... )

I'm too lazy to think of a better subject title right now. I guess I'll start by writing about what I'm writing about ( Read more... )

I'm running out of creative ways to use my pot heaters. So far I make scrambled eggs, boiled potatoes, boiled vegetables, and boiled sausage. I'm thinking of starting to fry some food, but I want to try to maintain a healthy diet. It's a shame that my room didn't come with an oven or a microwave because my options would be more numerous if that ( Read more... )

So, pretty much everything I was behind on due to not having the internet is now done. Here is my current to-do list ( Read more... )

So, I'm getting a kind of rhythm here with work. My creative peak sort of changes with my lifestyle. It was wiped out when I was working in California thanks to the long work days. When I was working in Michigan or unemployed, it was almost always late at night. The same is proving to be true for me here in Korea too. Now I just have to do what was ( Read more... )

So, I finally got my health check done today. I had to pee in a cup, but they forgot to hand me the cup the first time so I had to drink water and wait an hour until I could do it again. Not fun, and just plain weird. I mean, honestly, who forgets to give the cup to somebody who's being tested for drugs? But if that's what it takes to prove I'm not ( Read more... )

I'm at my new place on the edge of the city. I'm really overwhelmed with things to do out here, but I guess living in just about any city would provide the same amount of things to do. There's a large population of foreigners teaching English out here, and I'm getting to know where many of them hang out. According to several of my coworkers, some ( Read more... )