Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, June 6

1. Ok… well this morning was a total waste of time. I slept in late and then spent a couple of hours fiddling around with my sick, sick computer. I think it got sick after all the times I tried to clean up Drama Boy’s and P.Boy’s downloading and so today it kind of choked… It wasn’t good. I wasn’t impressed.

2. The simple solution would be to take it into a computer shop, right?! Wrong. Today’s a holiday and so many things are closed and if they’re not closed well, they’re ran by Koreans. Koreans who speak Korean… go figure.

3. After fiddling around with it I finally found a solution. Turns out in order to erase a program I had to download an eraser program to erase the program and then erase the eraser program… did you get that? Anyway, it worked and so now things are running more smoothly, cool.

4. My attempt to do school work today was a total bust when a new friend of mine, we’ll call him Oh-Really Boy (cause I'm too tired to think right now and cause of his over use of the phrase “Oh really?!”… it’s gotta be a Korean thing, I’m convinced), asked me to come hang out with him in Suwon. Now, I know I could have said no… could have, should have, would have… but didn’t. He didn’t twist my arm or anything but I was itching to get out of the house. I’ve been all work and no play lately. So, off to Suwon I went. I sat on the subway marking students’ presentations and giggling over the silliness of them all.

5. Now my friend, Oh-Really Boy, is a new friend of mine. Actually, truth be known, this was our first time meeting. He’s a friend of a friend. kind of a love interest of a friends (ohhhh… the plot thickens, hahaha). She hasn’t said much about him but I know she likes him. I felt rather guilty for agreeing to meet up with him but I saw no harm in it, after all, we’re just friends and I’m definitely not interested in venturing into any complicated love triangles…. Again. Learned THAT lesson!

6. So, what did we do?... Well, for starters we must have read every ESL textbook they had in that store in hopes of finding the one that met the need I was looking to fill. Finally I got one. Then we grabbed some dinner and headed off to go see the movie “Shrek 3”.

7. Awesome movie!!! It was sooooooooo good. I’m not one for Disney and I’m definitely not one for kid’s movies but wow… it was so great. The thing that made this movie so awesome for me was how it was one big parody of the other Disney fairy tales. You had Cinderella and the other princesses admitting to waiting around for Prince Charming as their escape tactic, Pinocchio who rambled on and on in his struggle to avoid lying, the Ginger Bread Man pooping sugar gum drops, and a bar full of all the fairytale villains and secondary roles. They definitely had some awesome writers behind this movie, for sure! Now days I find myself paying attention more so to the fundamentals of things as oppose to simply enjoying it for what it is, in this case a movie. That’s like with the show “Sex and the City”. Now, don’t get me wrong, I know Disney’s cute little Cinderella and Prince Charming are definitely different than confused Carrie and her sexaholic friend Samantha but the two both have some pretty awesome writers behind them.

8. Watching Disney when I was a child and watching Disney now, definitely is different, especially now that the production companies aren’t so tight with it’s rules and so strict with its’ content.

9. In front of me in the theater sat a little boy who was loving “Shrek” and giggling away. Mind ya, the jokes he was catching on to and the ones I was giggling about were quite different. There were a lot of sexual innuendos in the movie and things that that little boy had no way of picking up on and because of that, I really liked it. The script was awesome because it pertained to both the young crowd and the older crowd.

10. Now in regards to “Sex and the City”, I love the style of writing and how the show all comes together. Here you have this New York columnist doing a series of monologues in the show with various other scenes. The show focuses on 4 different females and their lives but what’s so interesting about them is how different they all are and yet they're all connected through the help of the main character’s monologues. I watch the show definitely more so for the writing style as oppose to the actual content.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Carrie is right, how come us singles don't have Hallmark holidays?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
-- Elmer G. Letterman