Highlights of my Day... Monday, April 21

1. Mi Nam had mad gas today and it was killing me. Nothings quite like waking up and gagging to death on puppy gas... nasty!

2. Despite Mi Nam losing a bit of pudge, he has officially grown out of his harness. I've been taking him up to the rooftop to run around but this morning I wanted to walk him... no such luck. The poor little harness looked like it was going to snap as I tried to buckle it around Mi Nam's bulging belly... hehehe.

3. "No profile, no exam" is what I've been telling my university students since week 1 and you'd think that eight weeks later they would have figured it out by now... nope. Having to tell 8 students to go home because of no profile really sucked but rules are rule. Some may say it's a stupid rule... say that to the girl last year who tried to pose as her friend, my student, and I caught her. Not such a stupid rule after all.

4. There's a boy in my first period sports students class that insists he's in my class despite the fact that his name has never been, nor still isn't, on my attendance sheet. Ironically too, he's probably one of the best students in that particular class. He's done all the homework and quizzes. Last week he even did a presentation and today he wrote the exam. After class he stuck around to tell me that he hasn't been getting my weekly emails. "It's because you're not in my class" was my response. It's quite amusing cause we go through this conversation every week. I really wish he were one of my students though cause God knows he'd bring the class average up.

5. I love it how some students insist on trying to pull fast ones over us professors. Need they be reminded that I too, not so long ago, was also a student. Today one of my students tried to give me a long song and dance about why she didn't present last week, I responded with, "Sweety, you can't pull that one over me. You and your friends are reusing the tricks that I and my friends made." and with that I told her to come up with a better excuse. Word of the wise, honestly is the most believable excuse.

6. As I gave the listening exam to my last period class, I watched in awhe as the girl sitting next to my desk blow through the exam and ace it. I think she only got one or two answers wrong. I was relieved to see this cause I was beginning to think I made it too hard.

7. In the evening, I marked all the exams from today. There were drool marks on one paper from the sleeping student, pictures on another, random chicken scratches, but the funniest exam came from a boy who clearly didn't understand the vocab used in the dictation part. I had told them to write down word-for-word what I say: "That's my father-in-law in the park." The boy wrote, "That's my father in the raw in the dark."... hehehe.

8. The other day, upon squeezing the heck out of my ears, Junior Mint discovered that my ears aren't quite like his, or anyone else's in the gym for that matter. You see, when you fold my ears, it hurts. Always has, always win. Junior Mint is convinced this is somehow linked to my kidney. No idea where he got that idea from but tonight a local doctor was training at the club. Next thing I know it, random people are squeezing my ears and Junior Mint has arranged for me to go get my kidney checked out and acupuncture... what?! I'm sure a needle in the bum will accompany the acupuncture.... hehehe.

9. Whenever I go weight training or boxing, I always struggle with how exactly to keep my hair out of my face. At weight training, it's easy, I simply wear a baseball cap. However, at boxing, it's another story. I've been wearing a winter tuk for some time now but with it now being spring, I thought it best I keep the tuk at home and look for a different means. My hair is too short to go in a pony tail with out a million and one clips accompanying it. BUT... today I discovered an Adidas headband at the mall. Viola. I thought it looked kind of retro 80's but that's kind of why I liked it. Not only does it keep my hair out of my face but it also soaks up the sweat and makes my face look very slim. So, I sported my new headband at training... and got lots of mixed looks. One girl commented, saying that I must be using the new "v-line" face tool... hmmm, no. It's called a good diet and retardedly hard training. Others said I looked cute, while some just stared and gave me the "what the heck is that on that girl's head?!!!" look. I bounced out of that situation by blurting out, in Korean, "Oh so funny? I look funny?... my head is smaller than yours... hehehe", and on that note, they couldn't disagree but they all laughed.

10. Got word today that next week (Wednesday) I'll be having a very important sparring match with one of Korea's very own female national champions!!! It'll be 8 rounds, 2 minutes each and I'm sure the club is going to be packed. I'm stoked but a bit nervous. Junior Mint insists that this will be good publicity, wicked for my training, good for my reputation, and it'll keep the sponsors happy. Don't get me wrong, I totally agree, mind ya, for the next week this will mean training will be brutally hard and I'll be nervous all week. That same week, on the Saturday, Q and I will be running a 10km race here in Cheonan. We were originally going to run it together but now we've kind of made it a competition, with free dinner and a massage for the winner. I told Q to prepare himself... I want my feet rubbed... hehehe.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What decade would you want to live in?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
-- Aldous Huxley