As I set off for work this morning a light rain descended upon Seoul, making an already treacherous bike ride even more so. In the approximately 20 minutes it takes me to get to work by bike, I must dodge…
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Saying More with Less
“Living abroad is a lot like being an alcoholic: you have to take things one day at a time. You’ll have your good days, and your bad days.”-Me, after Japan My readers may have noticed that May has been strangely…
An Afternoon in Insadong
At this very moment, life couldn’t get much better. I’m sitting on a patio, under shade, sipping coffee, while online writing my blog. It sort of looks like this: I’m not sure the photo does this situation justice, but trust…
e-Me
As I was leaving for work the other day it occurred to me that I now leave home with no fewer than three electronic devices, none of which existed at the beginning of my life. For an individual of my…
On Blogging
I had a little extra time at the end of my workday on Monday, and I thought I would change some things around on my blog. I’ve never really been happy with my current template (or “theme” to use the…
Top 5: Favorite Cities
Let me take a crack at this list. My last two “Top 5” lists remain unpublished to my blog because I finished and decided they were, for lack of a better word, dumb. My first attempt was to list off…
When Worlds Collide
When I was in grade school, I remember thinking of my teachers in very two-dimensional terms. Their personalities and the fabric of their existence did not, in my mind, extend beyond school. I only knew them within the confines of…
Couch Season is Open!
During my first 5 months here in Korea, I only hosted one couchsurfer–Mark–and that was nearly accidental. (Several hours of noraebang and copious amounts of alcohol usually necessitate a place to crash). Well, in the last month or so, business…
A Traveler’s Dilemma
I started this website with the intention of doing a copious amount of travel writing. Of course in order to do this, I should, you know, travel. So I’ve been thinking a lot about my upcoming summer vacation (the maligned…
Keep Bangin’ on that Door…
…until I bust it down. I’m in abnormally good spirits for a Monday evening in which I received a job rejection e-mail a scant two hours ago. Perhaps it is the Talking Heads ringing in my earphones, but I actually…
Workshop Blues
I’m sitting here in a convention center somewhere in or near Incheon, on a Saturday, for a mandatory day-long workshop for our parent company, Korea Poly Schools. This workshop is, thus far, proving to be just as boring and unhelpful…
Battle: Los Angeles
For the most part*, I love alien invasion movies. A regular criticism is that they all follow the same plot: Aliens arrive on Earth. We’re not sure whether they are here with peaceful intentions**, or to start blowing shit up.…