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Taking a trip can be a trip.
One of the things that redeems a long a grueling trip is the people that you meet along the way. I met a few interesting characters on my New York to Incheon trip ( Read more... ) -
Turkey Two, Turkey Too
Right. So its back to the saga of the mighty Turkey Battle of 2009 ( Read more... ) -
T-giving PS
My last post needs a few addendums... I mis-spoke when I said "without an oven"... I should have said: "How can you prepare a turkey in a country without ovens?" Even our school has no oven...April from Peices of April had the ability to go door to door begging for oven space...but not me ( Read more... ) -
Looking for Big Bird. Can you tell me how to get to Seasame Street?
As it turns out, getting a turkey in Korea isn't impossible....just very,very difficult. After going "cold turkey" last year (sorry) I stubbornly declared that I WOULD have an unreasonably-large,tryptophan-laced bird this holiday. The "turkey odyssey",as it shall be called from this day forward, began last Thursday. I posted my query on two ( Read more... ) -
OK OK OK OK
I have been slacking...more than slacking. Things here have become normal for me. When I come to the US in January I will probably post about how unusual life is there... I have a small list stories to tell and I PROMISE to post one tonight. I guess that I will work backwards and tell the "Turkey Tale" first. Yup I promise to talk turkey in ( Read more... ) -
WWWW...wow what wild weather!
Mostly my life has settled down to a routine of working and Aikido followed by a brief rest and then repeat. But I have to say something about the weather recently. I am sorry that my first post in forever is as mundane as weather but bear with me please ( Read more... ) -
Doppelgangers!!!!
I suppose that it has something to do with the human compulsion to make order and sense of the universe. I always feel the urge to seek out the patterns. In spite of this I am surprised at how many doppelgangers I see in Korea. Doppelgangers are people's doubles...this phenomena has happened to me before, but I have never been anywhere so foreign ( Read more... ) -
Yet Another In a Series
I received three birthday parcels for my birthday. It was interesting to me that they reflected the bestowers' personalities so well ( Read more... ) -
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The Roches sing a song called Commuter Train and some of the lyrics are, "once you step on you might never get off of the commuter train....its a trip and a half ( Read more... ) -
The way to work
I walk about half an hour to get to work (and likewise on the way home). I do this everyday. Meanwhile other people are doing the same thing but in the opposite direction. As a result of this phenomena, I pass by the same people every work day. I exchange greetings and pleasantries with five of them or so. I like not being in a car because I ( Read more... )