Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, May 30

1. Traveled an hour and a half for a hug… but it was totally worth it. I had headed out to Seoul to see my friend, Wonder Woman, and so she greeted me with a big warm hug. We hardly see each other but I know that’s my fault… I don’t really like going to Seoul.

2. Anyway, we headed out for lunch. I had arrived a bit late (lately that’s been my new style… hehe, fashionably late). She was on a time limit cause she’s taking a business course for her company but she scrapped her plans and instead sat and had some seriously good girl talk with me.

3. After I scored yet another hug from Wonder Woman, she headed back to school and I went in search of this notorious English bookstore she had told me about. She was right, it was huge! It was the mother of all English bookstores in Korea! Holy sensory overload! I was like a kid in a candy store, grabbing and touching any book I could get my little Polish hands on… hehehe.

4. Slowly but surely I see myself becoming more and more like my parents. My mother is infactuated with books. She’s got like a billion and one library cards from various libraries (city library, church library) and even had me agree to sign up for a card so that she could use it and take out a whole slue of books… hehehe. Well lately I’m feeling the itch to buy books. My current interest books has been in regards to Korean language books. I’ve got a couple of different Korean dictionaries and a good stack of Korean self study textbooks. Today I bought yet another self study text. It’s a writing textbook, 20 chapters and about 200 pages in length. My goal for the summer is to finish this text and my other one, “Survival Korean”.

5. It’s always interesting coming to Seoul because it’s just so different than Cheonan…. There’s a heck of a lot more people, the fashion is different, more traffic, more foreigners… and of course, I can’t forget to mention there’s a heck of a lot more good-looking business men here. It must have been lunch time when I went strolling around cause the streets were flooded with cute little business men in their ties and suits. They looked like dolls with their high-maintance hair and picture-perfect smooth styles. I tried hard not to stare but wow, Korean men are so beautiful. I guess I had caught the eye of this one guy who stood at the corner, near Coffee Bean. He was trying to fix his tie and so I couldn’t help but giggle cause he looked like a helpless child doing a task that I think is relatively simple. He looked up at me and gave a grin.

6. Ended up running ion Mr. Coffee Bean dude again, like an hour later. As I passed him, he pretended to cough and so I smiled back but continued on my way. It wasn’t until much later, when I stopped at the crosswalk, that I realized he had been walking behind me. He was so cute and had I not just been burnt by Pretty Boy, I probably would have talked to him but instead, I turned around and in Korean I called him a troublemaker. You can imagine his surprise when I said that totally out of the blue! I was quite shocked too to hear myself say it to a complete strange. I know, I shouldn’t have said it but lately I’ve been thinking that guys are nothing but trouble. I love Korean men and I think they’re so beautiful but they come with an invisible warning that I’ve thrown on them, “Look, but don’t touch.”

7. After being away all day, Mi Nam was so excited to see me when I got home. He wouldn’t stop jumping and so I started to play wrestle with him. I’d roll on the ground and he’d jump on me… but, it was all fun and games until he stepped on my head and left my neck all bloody. I didn’t notice it at first but then saw blood on the hardwood flooring. I rushed to the bathroom to check myself out in the mirror and…. Wow! He had totally scratched up my whole back and had done a number on the back of my neck.

8. Opted out of training tonight due to the fact that I looked all gangster with my back cut up and the gash on my neck. It didn’t hurt but it didn’t look good. I looked like a total scrapper and so stayed home. I didn’t want to give them any more reason why to consider me the gym outcast, it’s already ackward enough that I’m the only chick there that pushes the weights and actually runs on the treadmill… hehehe.

9. Late in the evening, as I struggled to get in some beauty sleep, I just couldn’t shake off what was on my mind. I had intended to work on my student marking today but I had gone to Seoul and then wasted my evening away with doing nothing in particular. I’m uncomfortable using Excel spreadsheets and, although I consider myself intelligent, I also know I’m quite the procrastinator when it comes to not doing things I’m not comfortable with.

10. My remedy… call up Do Chun. Our conversation started off with me pouring out my stress via the telephone line and then ended with us talking about relationships. I asked him to give me his honest answer about some things I was curious about in regards to guys and relationships. I wanted the insider’s scoop. However, it seems like the more I learn about men, the more I learn I really don’t know much about them. How ironic is that?!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
You lookin' at me?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Men are from Mars.
-- Author Unknown