Perhaps I spoke too soon, and all this talk of merriment, drunkery and nostalgia was a bit premature. I should preface this entry by mentioning that I, one of my students, his mother and a friend devoured a roast duck in about twenty minutes today, and that was just weird and delicious, and wierdly delicious. So between the waterfowl in my gullet, the booze in my system and the odd hours I've been keeping lately, things seem strangely amiss. Now I know what you're thinking--"strangely amiss" is fairly status quo in the land of mysteriously dissapearing canines and mallards, and you're right. Still, I thought I had arrived at a mental state of reasonable comfort with Korea's various eccentricities, unpleasantries and it's economically advantageous luxuries. Recently however, as is bound to happen when one goes out carrousing four nights in a row, the strange, the odd and the negative have begun to surface and give the good, the serendipitious and the positive a run for it's money. Yes, it's the same epic struggle between yin and yang so artfully depicted in Tombraider 2, (Hanz Moleman says, "You took two hours of my life and I want them back! Oh, I probably would have just wasted them anyway.") Not to make short-shrift of these developments, but they need to be condensed in list form for a lot of reasons, sleep deprivation formost among them (Worry not, parents. I am strong like Ox). So here goes--

1. Who knew that the Eastern seaport and more was powerless for a spell? Certainly not I, who grew suspicious only when checking on the Giants game, found that their game against the Mets had been postponed because of...a massive power failure? I tell you: only in America, parts of Canada, and countries that don't have power to begin with. And then to add insult to injury, the Giants go on to lose two games to the lowly 'Spos. Tragic.

2. My @)($$#(%^@$#% computer is a piece of crap (No offense Natasha)

Several crucial keys on my computer keyboard, including but not limited to, the i,k, and the comma keys, are no longer functioning. Which makes it pretty goddamn difficult to type. Currently I am cutting and pasting those particular letters (and signs in the case of the one they call comma), from earlier entries. It's not very fun. And Caleb's suggestion to write without using those letters was just Unsane with a capital "U".

Ahhhhhhh I'll be back