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Saturday, February 28th, 2009
1:15 am	"The Ghost" Dear Robert Harris, Your book sucks and you should probably see someone about your issues with women. Also, don't write any more fake news articles without first looking up "inverted pyramid style." Also, thirty pages detailing the narrator Googling things is lazy as hell. Blow me, Chase (Comment on this)
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
5:19 pm	Eight things 1. ZOMG, Fiona has the prettiest dress ever in the new "Burn Notice"! She looks like a deco sunrise! 2. I will be back in Migook as of 3/12. I am really scared. 3. I did shots with my coteacher at work today. So it's not even 5:30 and I am hammered. 4. My local grocery now has Spanish olives *and* Nutella in the foreign food aisle! 5. Was Det. Crews totally jealous of Det. Reese/Sgt. Tidwell in Life? Or was he just being obstreperous as always? 6. I am veeeeeery drunk. Holy crow. 7. I really hate it when people suggest books I don't like. My best Korean friend just made me read "Fox Girl," which is a book about sexual exploitation during the post-Korean War period, and I hated it. It makes me think, "How well can you know me, if you think this is a thing that I would like?" Happily, she herself didn't like it much, so I don't have to pretend that I did. 8. On the other hand, when people suggest books that I really like, it makes me want to sleep with them. I'm looking at you, JP. [Edit] 9. If I were choosing a fake name, it would be Luc Reynard. Well, if I were a dude. And, ha ha, I always have my Korean name: 초아스! Current Music: Burn Notice! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 25th, 2008
9:04 am	Merry Christmas, jerks! I have the flu, so I will be spending Christmas alone in my apartment, eating anything that comes to hand and drinking a disastrous amount of Pocari Sweat. So think about that when your great-aunt says something hideously racist and you're wishing you were somewhere anywhere else! Current Mood: woozy Current Music: coughcoughcough (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
8:16 pm	Meat-Eating Amnesty I am thinking of declaring Meat-Eating Amnesty Day on my birthday. After two and a half full years as a vegetarian and five years as a non-red-meat-eater, I feel like I have earned a cheeseburger. (And, if the cheeseburger doesn't make me sick, also some samgyupssal.) But at the same time, I've been so fucking sanctimonious about being a vegetarian. And being a vegetarian is so much a part of my identity -- somewhere after "American" and somewhere before "bookworm." So I guess my question is, what do you think, Friendslist? Am I a giant hypocrite if I eat a cheeseburger? Or can I have Amnesty Day and still think of myself the same way? Don't tell me what I want to hear, tell me what you actually think. Current Music: Shivaree, John 12:14 (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 15th, 2008
10:59 am	EW! The cleaning solvent I used on my bathroom is making the top layer of my fingernails peel and flake off. GROSS. Current Mood: It's good for the lungs, too! Current Music: I Luv the Valley OH! -- Xiu Xiu (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
5:17 pm	Battlestar Galactica I just started watching this show, and while I'm never going to be a huge nerd for it... NOTHING MAKES ME HAPPIER THAN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAURA ROSLIN AND BILL ADAMA! Except for the relationship between Keith and Veronica Mars. Current Mood: So happy to not be teaching Current Music: You Could Be Her (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 15th, 2008
10:12 pm	Korean Fashion You know how sometimes idiots get tattoos of Chinese characters without quite knowing what they mean? And the urban legend of the girl who got the character for "chlamydia" on her lower back? The must-have item clothing for Koreans at the moment is a black Polham t-shirt that says: It's just Boston traditional style, which is the heartfelt casual expression. POLHAM the JUSTIFIABLE. There is so much I do not understand about this shirt! Boston traditional style = pink Sox hats and open collars with gold chains? (Sorry, Boston.) Is that what the heartfelt casual expression is? Also, the justifiable? Do they mean it's justifiable to pay w40,000 for a Polham shirt made of crappy, scratchy cotton? In June, the must-have shirt said "JOHN PAUL GEORGE RINGO," which I thought was pretty cool. But more often, it's people running around with laughably obscene things written on their clothes. One sweet kid regularly wears a shirt that says "Fuck the police." Half my girl students own shirts that say "I'm a TOSSER for DESIGN UNITED," which is just upsetting on a ten-year-old! Today I saw an ajumma wearing a shirt that said "Preteen Lolita," which would have been really upsetting on an actual preteen, but on an alien-visored 60-year-old was pretty funny. There's a legendary photo on the internet of a nine-year-old boy in a shirt reading "Too Drunk To Fuck." The shirt that prompted me to write this? A woman in her 30s was wearing a shirt on the subway that said "Can't hold back -- I'm gonna COME." Current Mood: Oh, Korea. Current Music: This American Life (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 1st, 2008
4:59 pm	VACATION! Today was my last day of summer camp, and the students in one class seemed determined to prove their affection by giving me as many bruises as possible. They're grades 1/2, and really cute, but also tiny psychos -- young enough to be violent, old enough for it to hurt. There's one beautiful little girl in the class who I gave the English name Regina*, but who somehow got the nickname SpongeBob. She's disruptive and quick to hit and obviously indulged at home. She likes to get my attention by kicking me as hard as she can in the back of the thigh. Today we were playing one of many games in a big circle. The kids fight over who gets to hold my hand, which at first was really cute but quickly became super annoying. SpongeBob won the fight by pinching the other girls until they cried, and then grabbed my hand like a little limpet; I seriously could not get her off. I ignored her and tried to start the game. Spongebob started twisting my fingers the wrong way; I ignored her some more. Then SpongeBob stuck my ring finger in her mouth. "EW! WHAT?" I shouted. SpongeBob giggled, then (I assume unknowingly?) imitated a sex act. I jerked my hand away and made sure to keep a couple of Jennys between me and her for the rest of the class. Lessons: I need a coteacher always, little girls are creepy, I don't want to be a real teacher. *English names are not my idea. In fact, they ook me out. But my principal feels strongly that they are a good idea, so all of my students get "English" names. I give them cool names, like Anise or Nadia or Hannon, and they promptly change it to Judy, Julie, and Harry. Current Mood: Ew! Current Music: Get Your Hands Off My Woman -- The Darkness (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
4:50 am	INSANE INSANE-O! So, before I wrote about this creepy creepo I met in the subway. He got my number from a friend, yay! INSANE CREEPY UPDATE! Last night (11:48 PM), I got this text. Let's just pretty much [sic] the whole thing. hay this is [creep] from [area] i got ur # from [my asshole friend] i think we had good nrgy lets meet up txt me This morning (10:10): sory for crazy text last night i was pretty drunk but u can text me ur email and i will send u lots of info abt me This morning (11:58, over three messages total): maybe im wrong but i think if ur not interested in makeing friends u should have the balls to say so to someone face and not ignor them like a bitch ur missing out so lose my # Well, I've got to go -- obviously [my asshole friend] and I need to have a conversation about which random strangers get my number, creepy fuckers NOT being among them. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
4:38 am	World's creepiest pick-up. I was in a foreigner-y section of Seoul on Saturday, and I gave this dude subway directions, because I'm awesome. (I'm now 90% sure they were bad directions. I am awesome, but I suck at directions.) The guy started asking for my number, and I was all, "Oh, I have a boyfriend." Him: "Come on. People like us are like earthworms: We almost never meet in the light." Ew. What? AAAAH! I had so many reactions, all at once! And every time I think about it, I come up with another way that's creepy! (At least he wasn't The Entertainer.) Bonus creepy: After I walked away, the first song that came up on my iPod was "Scream and Run Away" by the Gothic Archies. Ha! Current Mood: Skeeved out Current Music: Scream and Run Away -- the Gothic Archies (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 11th, 2008
6:45 am	I Love Money It's the realitypocalypse! I thought Celebrity Rehab was going to be the best show ever for being hilarious and making me feel slimy at the same time, but I Love Money wins x30. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
7:01 pm	Wolf Parade: At Mt. Zoomer OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU WOLF PARADE! Also, how awesome is it that I can be in Korea and get music the same day it's released in the US? I love you, iTunes and the internets! Current Music: Wolf Parade -- Bang Your Drum (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
5:26 pm	Why Hope and I are made of win. Here is a conversation I had with my sister yesterday: ME, 9:19 PM: Hahaha, also, I watched "Logan's Run" today, because I got it confused with "Blade Runner." SISTER, 9:20 PM: Did you wonder why everyone thought this movie was so great? ME, 9:21 PM: YES! GOD! SISTER, 9:21 PM: "AND WHERE'S WESLEY SNIPES." ME, 9:22 PM: "HOW CAN THIS BE THE WESLEY SNIPES FUTURE WHEN THERE'S NOT A SINGLE BLACK PERSON IN THIS FILM." SISTER, 9:23 PM: "IS IT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T PAY TAXES." Me, 9:23 PM: I WAS PROMISED FORD. HARRISON FORD. HE IS BETTER LOOKING THAN THESE SKINNY BLONDE HAN SOLO-LOOKING MOTHERFUCKERS. SISTER, 9:24 PM: DOESN'T HARRISON FORD LOOK LIKE HAN SOLO. ME, 9:24 PM: I MEAN LUKE SKYWALKER. OBVIOUSLY. SISTER, 9:24 PM: I SEE. YEAH, FUCK THAT DUDE. ME, 9:25 PM: Dude, are you sure Wesley Snipes is in Blade Runner? SISTER, 9:25 PM: SHEEEE-IT. Isn't that the movie that made him, like, famous? ME, 9:26 PM: Uh, are you thinking of Demolition Man? SISTER,9:27 PM: Hahaha, no, I'm thinking of Blade. ME, 9:27 PM: HAHAHAHA! Good one, Beesly. SISTER, 9:28 PM: Would have been better if I'd been thinking of "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything." ME, 9:28 PM: WHY ARE THERE NO VAMPIRES IN THIS FUTURISTIC DRAMA! I WAS PROMISED WESLEY SNIPES, BUT ALL THERE IS IS THIS HAN SOLO-LOOKING MOTHERFUCKER! SISTER, 9:28 PM: "GOD, WHY IS NOBODY GETTING THEIR HEADS CHOPPED OFF." We're awesome, even if we do totally overuse capslock. Current Mood: Long day. Current Music: Ballentines -- Aimee Mann (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
11:10 am	My students are great (occasionally) I have a few kids who really stand out w/r/t their awesomeness. I teach 6th and 4th graders, which means that their Western ages are about 11 and 9 respectively, and sometimes they're really great. My first day observing a class, right when I first got here, one of the students turned around and whispered, "Where did you come from?" "California," I said. "You must be so lonely," she said. I almost burst into tears. A few weeks ago we were looking at pictures of people eating, and I asked the students to explain what was happening in the picture. A girl was eating a Wonderbread sandwich and looking sad. One of the sixth grade boys said "I think she is too hungry, so she is chewing napkins." It cracked me up for a day and a half. On Thursday, one of the girls in the sixth grade (I think her name is Chonan, but the Korean names kill me) brought me a lanyard at lunchtime. "You are so beautiful," she said, then took about a minute and a half to come up with "I like you very much." The kids in my after school class are also awesome. One of my favorites is a third grade girl called Eunjae. Her English is pretty good, but she gets overly emotional about some things and kind of loses her ability to articulate, so she says "Teacher, oooooooooooooaaaaaanh!" and then giggles, which somehow perfectly communicates "You have to help us cheat, or else the sixth graders will beat us again!" Eunjae sits next to Amy, also a third grader, who spent some time in Canada, so she calls me Miss Chase. On Tuesday I gave them a crossword about whales to do, and Amy said to me perfectly seriously, "Miss Chase, this is my worst nightmare." (I told her to draw a whale on the back instead.) I also love Hyun-joo. He's a sixth grader, and really sharp, but kind of introverted and weird. We were playing the "Most Extreme" game, where the kids start out with a simple statement and each team has to come up with something more extreme. When it came to Hyun-joo, it was "Today I killed the universe and all the planets with an atomic bomb." Hyun-joo said, "Today I killed the first thing that was in the universe." I said, "Do you mean God?" "No," he said. "The first thing. Before the universe." And I'll be damned if he didn't mean the Prime Mover. What sixth grader can communicate the idea of the Prime Mover, much less not in their native language? Of course, I also have Creepy Up-Nose Staring Boy, It's Thursday So It Must Be Fistfight Day Boy, the fact that the first graders scream "Foreigner!" and run the other way when they see me, Inappropriate Crying Girl, and the Mystery Pooper, so it's not like I dearly love them all, but still. Current Mood: Saturday! Current Music: T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
7:41 pm	Cliff from Veronica Mars I totally have a crush on him right now. Who are your random tertiary character crushes, Friendslist? In real life as well as television/stories. Current Mood: Wednesday!Drunk Current Music: Prince of Parties -- Conchords (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
7:54 pm	So, I've been studying Korean, and... Here are your names transliterated into Korean (Hangeul, obvs, not Hanja), at least for those people who I think would be interested: 아미 – Amy (Ah-mee) 매다나 – Bethany (Meh-tah-nee) 어부 – Hope (Oh-pu) 거레나 – Karenna (Ka-hre-nah) 리자 – Lisa (Hle-sa) If I didn't include you, comment (with your preferred name, if I don't know it) and I'll rectify the oversight! Current Mood: Pleased! Current Music: Don't Stop the Music -- Rihanna (17 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
5:31 pm	Aww! Right now, there's nine middle school girls (I can tell by their uniforms) having a picnic on a roof opposite my apartment building. They're eating kimbap and ddukbokgee, and drinking tea, and they have excellent manners -- when a girl pours for her friends (never for herself!) she puts her fingers on the elbow of her non-pouring hand, and when each girl drinks, she averts her face from the others. Hmm, and they just said cheers, and drank, and threw the rest of the tea in their cups out behind them, which I've never seen before. Anyway, it's too cute! Edit: HAA! And now they're playing drinking games with beer and makkoli. Well, at least they're killing brain cells politely, and not during school hours. Current Mood: Win some, lose some. Current Music: This American Life (Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
8:35 pm	Argh argh argh argh ARGH! So, I was supposed to have a holiday today and Friday. Past tense! My president has decided that it is important that I come to work on those days (even though I have no class and nothing to prep for) and sit in my classroom with my thumb up my ass. They decided to let me know today. And when I say "decided to let me know," I mean the president told the vice-president, who told my co-teacher, who told me in the form of a positive. "Now you don't have to use one of your vacation days!" Not that I would have been using a vacation day for a day off, anyway. So the whole school has a holiday, but if I want to not come in I have to use a vacation day. And, worse, my poor co-teacher has been dragooned into going to work also, presumably because I can't be trusted sitting in the school by myself. Who knows, I might invent violent crime or pornography! Or say something bad about kimchi! But because her computer is eight inches from my computer, now I can't spend the day reading the Wonkette and doing my Sekret Second Job; I have to make it look like I'm working. It's lame. I'm trying to be sanguine about it. And I'm trying to make sure my co-teacher doesn't hate me by bringing in donuts. Current Mood: Not resentful, that's for sure Current Music: Inner City Pressure -- Conchords (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
8:31 pm	I got a hamster! Okay, I know I'm a horrible person because I bought a pet from a pet store. But it's a hamster; it's not like there are tons of people giving away unwanted hamsters! His name is Mandu, which is Korean for dumpling. Not because he's a little dumpling, but because you could swallow him in one bite, just like a kimchi mandu. He's a dwarf hamster with chipmunk stripes, and I bought him the Cadillac of hamster houses. It has a wheel and a habitrail tunnel and a little plastic room lined with torn up Kleenex. Also a hamster ball, because he's an adventurous little fucker, and I love him. Current Mood: I heart Mandu Current Music: 4th of July -- Aimee Mann (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
9:55 am	PSA Here is how you say MILF in Korean: Momjjang ajumma. (mom-JANG a-JUH-mah, more or less "Auntie Goodbody") You're welcome. Current Mood: Weekend! Current Music: Ricky Gervais podcast (1 Comment |Comment on this)