There is this house down the street from my house, where two or three college-aged males live. It's April and the days are starting to get warmer and sunnier. Every time I've walked past the house where these guys live, they're all sprawled out on their lawn together with their shorts pulled up to their crotches. There is also a boombox with bad ( Read more... )

I'm about to embark on the hardest weekend of my life: no money, no sleeping in, no play. Go ahead and preach to me about human rights violations in Latin America and that I should be so lucky. I haven't slept in three days.

I still haven't heard any word from the adoption agency about my birth parents. I'm close to giving up with e-mail, but I don't have the money or means to pick up and go to Seoul ( Read more... )

I made the mistake of sitting beside this guy in the computer lab. All he does his groan and stare at me with his mouth hanging open.

The semester began and just like the before, I am also single once more. This time, however, it's not so bad. Joe and I weren't made for each other. "Jerry and Elaine." Whatever ( Read more... )

My mom let me look at my adoption papers over break. I found the names of my birth parents. My father's name is Park, Seong Moon and my mother's name is Hwang, Jeong Sook. They were in their 40s when I was born and they weren't married, hence giving me up for adoption 21 years ago ( Read more... )

Yinzer: "So... What? Chah-neez? Japah-neez?"
Me: "Excuse me?"
Yinzer: "You know, race?"

As if I didn't hear him so he had to repeat it monosyllabically.

Me: "Swedish."

I scheduled for spring classes a few weeks ago. My advisor knew one of the professors on my schedule.

"Oh you have Tom!" he said.
"Yeah, I've had him before. He's really good." I said.
"Me and Tom go way back. We were in rehab together for a few years."

::Long pause::

"Well tell Tom I said hi. Here's your schedule. You're all set."

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

-H.L. Mencken

Classes started Monday. I'm taking my first honors course and so far, I've had to read a little over 100 pages for the first week. I'm taking a class on Religion & Politics and the reading for that has been my favorite so far ( Read more... )