Sorry, girls, for not keeping in touch very well. I hate being flaky, and I'm sorry I've only been that for the summer so far ( Read more... )

Summer for me has been a time to nurture obsessions. Especially with the kind of laid-back summer I've had, with the exception of a frenzied, one-month stint with calc at the local UT school ( Read more... )

In on of my classes, we were reading about acrobats, and in the middle of reading about grueling training schedules of acrobats for Cirque de Soleil, I had to explain what "calluses" meant. When verbal attempts at explaining failed, I had the brilliant idea of giving my students a first-hand look at some calluses on my left hand, obviously ( Read more... )

I moved into the student's house for about 24 hours, and I didn't feel comfortable living there and there was a complicated situation with my brother's homestay place, so for the past two months, I've been living in a large closet of a room called a "private study room." These rooms are purportedly used by college-aged students who are studying up ( Read more... )

I dearly wish I could go to the picnic ( Read more... )

I heard something creak in the wall, perhaps a pipe, perhaps someone twisting a rusty nozzle in the apartment above, but I initially had attributed the sound to my stomach, because it was 5:00pm and I was hungry for dinner. When it started continuing for too long of a time any stomach could be capable of rumbling for, I felt embarrassed. I’ve ( Read more... )

I leave for Korea in five hours, but I haven't packed my bags yet. I have one of two bags packed. Perhaps my reluctance to pack has something to do with me not wanting to go as much as I thought I did. And also because of a few other reasons besides ( Read more... )

In Korean, wisdom teeth are called "love" or "sarang." (Initial reaction: What the hell?) Apparently, according to my dad, they're called "sarang" because people mature and start to love during the time wisdom teeth bother them. Huhhhh ( Read more... )

It feels nice to be back! And I'll be in ecastic cahoots when the entire hall is together again :D ( Read more... )

I've been (irrationally) obsessing over this cockroach business so much that those around me (narrowing it to my dad and my aunt) have had the great fortune of listening to me whine about how I'm just simply positive that cockroaches are breeding like mad in my dorm room ( Read more... )