Highlights of my Day... Monday, April 13

1. I love it. While the traditional gift for a student to give is the ever-so-fresh apple, my students have been much more creative with their gifts. Today I arrived to my desk and low and behold, what should sit waiting for me but a letter and a dog bone… hahaha. Turns out one of my students celebrated his pet’s birthday the other day and I popped up in his mind as he remembered I too have a pet. I guess he thought it’d be nice to share his pet’s presents; I thought it was very cute.

2. Day one of collecting student assignments in my reading class. Marking this is going to be a royal pain in the you-know-where, I’m sure, but none the less very impressive. And throw in the fact that I’m still in the process of creating my two midterm exams, am marking my listening students’ homework books, will have over 310 exams to mark next week, plus my own Korean level exam that I’ll be doing in a couple of weeks… and ya, lots of stuff on my plate :(

3. Classes are ultra short this week… super short, as I give them the low down for their midterm and then send them home to study my midterm review Power Point lecture file.

4. It’s official, as if I didn’t have enough stuff on my plate right now, Q and I will be repeating last year’s “friendly” 10km race. You can imagine my frustration last year when he beat me by exactly thirty seconds!!! I’m convinced I would have beat him too cause I kept an open eye for him but he took his hat off as he approached me and so I didn’t recognize him. And even though I may be suffering from the very same foot injury I had at last year’s race this year I’m determined to smoke him!

5. Last year’s 10km time for me, 56 minutes and 31 seconds. Not only am I determined to beat Q but I’m determined to beat my last year’s time, too. I use to be quite the long distance runner in high school... high school, oh gosh. Why the heck am I referring back to my high school days when they were but, oh gosh, ten years ago!!! I'm getting old :(

6. Spent my evening creating my midterm for my listening and pronunciation class… not fun.

7. At boxing tonight, Motor Cross has officially butchered my name after he caught a glimpse of my boxing license. For the most part, Korean names are three syllables and so the fact that my last name is totally omitted on my boxing license and Korean’s put their family names first, makes it looks like my last name is A and my first name is Uh Me.

8. Black Skinny had his big match out in Japan tonight at 8:30pm. I was at boxing when 8:30pm rolled around and when it did, I rolled my eyes in frustration and in disappointment that I couldn’t be there to cheer him on. I really regret not just picking up, jumping on a plane and standing by the ringside to support him.

9. Satoshi lives in Japan and so he went out to watch Black Skinny’s fight. He promised me he’d email me with the results but I’m an eager beaver and so I must have checked my email every couple minutes in great anticipation.

10. Despite staying up till the wee hours and checking my email like a mad-woman for any word from Satoshi, I finally decided that email or no email I had to go to sleep. The one side of me told me that no word from Satoshi was a good thing. It meant that he had taken Junior Mint and Black Skinny out on the town to celebrate the win and so they were drinking their faces off. The other half of me, however, told me that maybe they drinking their faces off not cause of a victory but because of a loss and that thought alone made it very hard for me to fall asleep.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Have you heard the verdict?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.
-- Author Unknown