Many of you may blink hearing me talk about finding joy in the routine in that I often rail against repetition in my life and how it leaves me feeling trapped. However, this week has been my first real week back at work, and it is amazing how much my life has reverted back to the routine I had at the end of last semester. I've done a bunch of ( Read more... )

I am aware that I have been terribly neglectful of this journal lately. And as is classic for lj, I return to vent about things that frustrate me. Today's topic ( Read more... )

It is rare that I drink with the goal of getting drunk, but last night it happened. I, unfortunately, succeeded spectacularly and woke up still a little drunk this morning. This whole abandoning reason and simply running with whatever is happening in my life is certainly eventful and generally quite interesting but at times it can be quite trying ( Read more... )

The Wii is up and runing! It was in fact the AC adapter, and I found this random dude who has a store in the video games section of Yongsan who has the hook up on illegally imported Wii parts(it doesn't come out here until April) who was able to fix my adapter for me and sell me a voltage converter ( Read more... )

Wii - $200 check ( Read more... )

So I somehow missed the boat on this news until today, but I just found out they are making new Evangelion movies to retell the story and give it yet another alternate ending. Christ, I about had a fanboy meltdown in the middle of the theater in Yongsan where I saw the display advertising it. (The display did have high detail resin models of Eva ( Read more... )

Dear Oregon,

Please stop producing women that make my life in Korea complicated.

-Cheers,
Chris

Holy cow, so I had been putting off updating this thing so I could post pictures from my winter camp with this post because I have some good ones, but I've been too lazy to upload them off the camera yet soooo yeah, no pictures ( Read more... )

I think at this point it is actually Christmas in large portions of America, but whatever.

It is Christmas here so Merry Christmas everyone! This year I got the same present twice, once from a friend and once from a white elephant exchange: a 4-pack of Hoegaarden and a pint glass! It is magical *tear*

I hope everyone has a happy holiday season

Apparently the universe has decided to make this week as weird as possible which is saying a lot since transplanting one's life to a foreign country inherently carries a bunch of weirdness with it ( Read more... )