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Liquid Christmas

2012-01-25T15:49:00.001-08:00

We sat around well into our cups at the Christmas party, an odd assortment of attendees gracing the Irish with company for the Sunday holiday. The atmosphere was rather bohemian, while all of us were in some varying degree or other teachers, each of us had a unique penchant for otherness, whether it was volunteer work, art, math, music, acting, or writing.I had worked hard to help prepare the

Stop SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-18T15:50:00.001-08:00

I don't have time to complete blackout my blog, in that 1) That coding took a long time. and 2) I literally don't have time However I do think it is important that people be aware of what SOPA and PIPA are and why they are so dangerous. Here is why. I'm going to link to other peoples pictures of the SOPA protest on the web. That's not my content, it's someone elses content. In a world

Escapism

2012-01-15T15:24:00.001-08:00

I needed a chance to get out and get away. Having my own business is fun, making my own hours, deciding where I’m going to be working for the day. All good things, but after a bit you tend to see the same walls over and over again and you begin to wonder what else you are living for. With that in mind I decided it would be a good time for a trip to do something else. Seoul is a good way to

Semi-Sweet

2011-12-25T17:00:00.000-08:00

Perhaps it is an inherent sense of masochism that leads me to do some of the things I do, however, I still do them.So, while I had finally recovered a little from the cold and was happily getting ready to spend my last week and a half in the states, I figured it was as good a time as any to embark on frivolous self improvement project.I like frivolous self improvement projects and this one is a

The Aftermath

2011-12-24T17:00:00.000-08:00

That tapes and Tapes show was so good, I figured that being sick was mostly a result of having walked around a very chilly Chicago during the late fall.On the train after the show my head hurt a bit, but I chalked it up to general tired and went off home and slept. By the next day I had lost all hearing in my right ear and my ear was very tender. I wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong, but being

Tapes and Tapes Again, My Love of Music

2011-12-23T17:00:00.000-08:00

Is my writing out of order. No, you’re out of order. Ridiculous to say, since you, dear reader, have nothing to do with the order in which I write and couldn’t really be out of order if you tried. Well I suppose you could if you wanted to comment upon it, but I’d probably not respond because I am entirely wrapped up in myself most of the time. I also realize that this journal is my own little

Six Days Later

2011-12-22T16:31:00.001-08:00

The sun is really shining this morning. It’s Friday in Korea, and the news of Monday has distracted from the other blogs I still need to post, getting around to it, I promise. In the meantime, since there is some curiosity as to what is going on in Korea I thought I might mention.On Monday afternoon while I was trying to finish up work so I could go have lunch the reports started to role in that

Kim Jong IL has died

2011-12-18T19:24:00.001-08:00

While working after having a weekend of nothing but working I am sitting in a coffee shop when my virtual co-worker mentions that State TV is reporting that Kim Jong IL has died. So far it has been confirmed now. This all happened about ten minutes ago. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2011/12/201112193620221153.html I like Al Jazeera, CNN, Reuters, and AP are all confirming as

Take Off

2011-12-15T03:14:00.001-08:00

A road trip later and I am back in Chicago and barelytouching the ground, having some Greek food, and seeing the Balance with asmall contingent of house guests before I am back on my way to Korea. It does sound rushed, it is. It feels like a blur and duringit I had no time to think about much anything at all. I was getting my bagspacked at the very, very last minute and trying to figure out the

Road Trip

2011-12-09T19:06:00.001-08:00

We took an extensive road trip while in the States. The purpose of the journey to see family on the east coast that is getting frailer as time passes. It’s amazing how quickly time can pass. I think of time in Korea as a drop in the bucket, but ten years have come and gone here. There are pieces of me scattered all over multiple countries now. Time keeps moving, and one day you stop to realize

Cranes

2011-12-02T21:16:00.001-08:00

Up in the air is probably the easiest way to describe my life at the moment which may explain why I have not been describing it. As it were I have more than a dozen stories to tell. Sometimes the best place to start is in the middle and just jump back and forth until I am caught up and then move forward. It is the time of year in America when the sandhill cranes migrate from one area to another.

Pieces

2011-10-18T05:52:00.001-07:00

These are the pieces of me. Each is a strand, each strand makes up some part of myself. They are collected less than a handful. They are fragile things, hardly strings, and yet each carries so much weight. A piece is torn off by my mother as she digs into that last vestiges of what I would call my soul. She rips and she shreds and she tears her way in. She racks the piece, ripping off

Chicago

2011-09-15T19:08:00.001-07:00

I'm here. For like two more weeks, although I will miss a weekend. As soon as I can stop icing my hands everynight from too much writing I will write more.

Breathe Just Breathe

2011-08-26T18:04:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I get lost down there.I become so consumed by who I am professionally that I forget that there is any personally. There is nothing but the work automaton who takes over and goes. She is professional, and smiling, and bubbly and she is kind hearted and she is liked and people like her. She is this surface creature, a constrcut for the waking world, a projection.And somewhere underneath

Bloggishness

2011-08-15T17:15:00.001-07:00

Scheduled to resume regular bloggishness soon. At the moment my hands are so sore at the end of the day I can barely type. Stories are coming. I need a good house party. ~S

Gin and Lime Juice

2011-08-09T21:59:00.001-07:00

“I’m trying to decide if I should move from a glass of wine to Gin?”The Kiterunner who is sitting across from me just pales. “I’m still vomiting after last night.”“And this is my fault, how?”“You should get the gin.”“I know.”Gin seems like a good idea at the moment. It’s 2:00 on a Saturday afternoon and I am in Itaewon after having rushed up to Seoul for yet another weekend of working and

Gin and Lime Juice

2011-08-09T21:56:00.000-07:00

Naughty Tables

2011-07-26T16:58:00.001-07:00

I don’t want to do anything work related this morning so I’m doing this instead. Also I know my readers seem to really enjoy hearing me talk about buying sex toys in Korea. This story is out of order as it actually happened sometime in November of 2010, however it has not been told. However, rarely do I attend a sex shop and not remember the details, so have at it for another adventure in sex toy

Shopping in Korea

2011-07-20T04:14:00.001-07:00

There is this realization that I do things in Korea that most people wouldn’t ever really consider trying to do. The Irishes want to move into a different apartment so I go around and find a real-estate agent and negotiate to get a new apartment for them. This requires some walking about, getting in and out o strangers cars, and generally relying on the Korean I know not to lead me astray.

Rain and ROKs

2011-07-10T19:23:00.001-07:00

My return to Korea is marked by white arms, and long blonde hairs, and monsoon rains.It is nights on the couch wishing that that air conditioner worked at all when the temperature is a climate 30 degrees with 100% humidity.I get back to the house from a long meeting in Seoul. The Irishes take one look at me and demand I sleep.“I’ll be fine.”They toss me into bed anyway and I am asleep before I

Wings and Things

2011-07-08T21:28:00.000-07:00

On the way home from my trip in the East, after a long and tiring flight, though one in which the crew decided to show up in time, it was determined that food needed to be gotten. The Electrician was playing chauffer, and it only took a few minutes for me to figure out how to give accurate enough coordinates to get picked up from O’hare. Fortunately he knew the airport better than I

Captains and Conductors

2011-07-02T16:08:00.001-07:00

I was on a plane that was flying to Philly. Granted the plane was an hour late taking off. As I was not on a specific traveling schedule it didn’t really bother me that it was an hour late taking off. What bugged me was that it was an hour late taking off and I had to get up at 5 a.m. to get a plane that was going to leave at 8:30 am instead of 7:30 am. Had I known that this would be the case I

Tired

2011-06-28T19:00:00.001-07:00

I am to tired and drained and emotional to write you. I know you want me to write you, and I promise it is there. I've made a list and checked it twice and probably tomorrow I will write, but at the moment the wine is too weak and my heart is too full to write. There is family heaped upon family. Knowing looks and some anger and resentment, love, though so much love. Pain. Reflection. Bike riding

House Party: Epilougue

2011-06-25T11:52:00.001-07:00

Now it is nothing but flashes. The drive up Lake Shore is dark, with clouds clogging out all the night sky. Street lamps are stars. I am dancing in my brain, my nerves are firing and my body feels like it is under a steady stream of electric stimulation. I am thumping, heartbeat, warm, desire…and light, light, light, dancing in my head, in my fingers. I want to run my hands through the clouds. I

House Party: This is Not the End Part 6

2011-06-24T07:08:00.001-07:00

Two people emerge from the bathroom. A third a moment later.I am giggly with a gigantic rush of endorphins and tequila flowing through my system. I am amused, and full of devil-may-care which seems all to appropriate for the moment. The filthy whores have perhaps exceed our reputation more than usual. Boring, even with the opportunity to become interesting, is still just as boring. “Brian come