The day has been expectedly busy. My mother has become captivated by Korean culture, and so we (my parents, one of my brothers, and I) ate at a Korean restaurant that she went to yesterday. It was quite good, and very novel, somewhat like the barbecue version of fondue. We were served platters of raw meat and vegetables, and in the centre of the ( Read more... )

Friday night I had an immensely hard time getting to sleep. I think that this is probably due to stress: I had an immense amount of work to do still for an ambiguously defined project, and I was about to leave for a trip that would dominate the entire weekend. On top of that, I had my grad student guilt monkey working at me: my primers had ( Read more... )