ho hum

originally posted Sunday, October 22, 2006

on most days, i tend to wear too many layers and i get hot within 10 minutes of leaving my apartment. today i didn't wear the supplementary layers and now i'm cold, compounded by the fact that i wore (as per usual) a shirt that's a little too small in the arm area. so i have to keep the sleeves rolled up. the relative chilliness would be downright pleasant were i wearing the sweater or sweatshirt i wear every other fucking day. aaarrgghh.
back at work again after a decent weekend. i got here at 10 (it's 11:32 now), and i've already run out of things to do. i've even exhausted two of my sure time killers--drinking coffee and going to the bathroom. plus i made lesson plans for tomorrow, which means that i'll have to find something else to do to kill time tomorrow. wait, i can type the lesson plans. that takes time. i'm not complaining though...my job now is surely some sort of karma for the chuncheon debacle.
tomorrow at the place where i actually teach 3 classes, i think i'm being observed by a superior. me no likey. i'm already painfully self-conscious and worried about the fact that maybe i'm not necessarily perceived as "fun" by the 6-11 year old crowd. 40 minutes per week is not enough time to build some sort of relationship or even know names (this will be my 3rd week). i'm sure i'll be fine, but i'll have to be extra chipper. if you know me, you know i'm not chipper. but having a guy in the classroom who i shall deem "the punisher" (i.e. he swoops in and smacks the unruly kids, though i don't believe any of them are unruly enough to warrant physical intervention, but whatever) sure keeps things interesting.
weekend babble: friday night met up with some epi kids and their dog. it wasn't a communal dog, just the dog of an epi kid's sister. we drank, they left, i drank some more with scott, mike and erica. made mandu and dokk bpoki (sp?). ended up breaking into the jameson bottle that i was sposed to save for some friends in chuncheon. the good news is, jameson in suncheon is not too outrageously expensive. went to sleep around 5 am (i didn't realize this until later on saturday when i was trying to piece the night together. i haven't stayed up that late since the days of "the party" 2 summers ago. ouch.). at noon thirty the next day i went to play basketball. i was impressed and surprised by the lack of a hangover. and then i walked onto the basketball court and thought i was going to yak. running is not a drunkard's friend. being out of shape is not a baskeball player's friend. put them together and you have a train wreck--a nauseated, out of shape train wreck. good gad. those things considered, i'm confident i wasn't the worse player out there, and that's saying something as i was the only girl out there. next time i'll at least bring my B game.
saturday night=more drinking until the wee hours of the morning. well, not too wee, but in light of friday night, it was a rough 2 days. on sunday i invited myself along with erica and mike's korean family. ate some samgupsal (sp? a lot better here than it was in chuncheon. actually tastes like meat instead of salty fat), did some driving in the rain, went bowling. that was pretty interesting. i got some video on my phone of the young korean kid's technique. it didn't really work per se, but it was sure cute. he would sort of take a running start and then stop and roll the ball directly into the gutter. like a granny shot in basketball. good times. all the holes in the ball were really small though. not just the circumference, but the depth of the holes. so i got my hand in the ball up until about the first knuckle, but no further. made things a bit awkward. but bowling was good, and it sure beat staying at home watching ocn "number one channel". later that night ate spicy chicken with another epi guy. good times. all in all a pretty good weekend. but i think i need to go out of town soon. the inherent adventure of riding a bus/train elsewhere in a foreign country is looming. getting paid helps too.