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 My last two “Top 5” lists remain unpublished to my blog because I finished and decided they were, for lack of a better word, dumb.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…