my own personal jesus

well hello.

if you're going to be here, i have to tell you:
i'm unreliable
inconsistant
sly-by-night
and most of the time i'm truant

but if you're here again
you probably already knew that
oh wise reader

be back in a while
have much to say and the filter is thick

of note

there was a time when i was really into writing on this blog.
now it's not much more than an infrequent nagging reminder
to write something on here, dammit.

alright:
i'm happy as hell.
things really couldn't be better
i have adventure and love in equal doses
i'm teaching again and it makes me feel worthwhile
i'm running again and it kills but it's good
i'm focusing on improving the parts of me that need it
and celebrating the parts of me that already kick ass.

how could life get much better?

i received so much ridicule and amazement from people back home
when i told them i was moving away
and even moreso when i said that sean was coming too
sometimes, outright disapproval and headshaking
but now here we are, we're safe and healthy
we're making more money and having more fun
than we ever did back home
and most importrantly,
we're HAPPY. what's that worth to all those people back home?

it's been a wonderful decision, to refuse to participate
in the recession and the joblessness
and the purveying gloom and doom that home is now famous for
it's been fantastic to come live in a bubble over here
protected from a shitty reality, in a sense
live in ignorant bliss, eating kimchi, sipping soju.
what's so wrong about that?


i'm happy.

sympathetic character

welcome to change.

i cleaned house--got rid of some unwanted stuff
some things, people that no longer belonged
i feel better now.

so much better, in fact,
that i went on down to the fish market to celebrate
my inner mollusk.

rainy day stomping

a brief trip to JeonJu (south)
to visit Nathan and Julie for a day
smack in the beginning of monsoon season
= soaked feet













place is famous for its food
we had delicious bibimbap
and sipped on moju
it was tasty ... and filling.

and then there were two

everyone we know is going to mudfest this weekend.
mudfest is south of here by three hours
take some crappy old clothes and your swim trunks
roll, wrestle, play in the mud
that is trucked in for days from somewhere else.
we can't go, we are broke.
but what ARE we going to do?

andrea wants us to stay at her house
and babysit her little kitten.
i say, oooh adorable. sean says bah.
so now we're babysitting kitty but not staying at andreas
sean doesn't do sleepovers. what a wanker.
wouldn't it be cute to wake up with a kitty on your nose?

julie and nathan are going to jeonju, south again
just for the day, just to go see what's there
we hear good food
we like good food
we'll take pictures of our faces as we eat it for posterity.

old korean buddies want to take sean and i out for lunch too
they girls love to gush over him, they're jealous
of my boyfriend-ship
haha
if they only knew how he stinks up the bed every night
they'd turn and run.
ah, FML.