Highlights of my Day... Wednesday, October 21

1. Headed out bright and early, well not so bright but definitely early, for weight training with Snickers and Kitty Cat. Snickers lectured me about wearing sandals when the air is cold enough to see your breath. I take it I’ll have to switch or get another lecture, that or deal with him sulking… hahaha.

2. My first class of the day consists of 40 students who sit crammed in a classroom that makes it all too easy for students to cheat and so I had Snickers assist me today with monitoring them during the exam.

3. Am convinced that if Snickers is added to any equation than you’re bound for fun. He stood at the back of my classroom and provided quite the authoritative influence but he continually made me crack my stern look by making faces at me. Of course the students couldn’t see what he was doing because he behind them all but they could see me facing them. I tried my hardest to bite the sides of my mouth in attempt to not smile but it was hard. Probably the hardest thing I’ve done all week… hahaha.

4. And on that note, I hope Snickers never grows up. I hope that when we’re old and crusty that he’ll still be the mental two year old he so often acts like… hahaha.

5. Spent part of my afternoon marking student notebooks. Discovering random “I love you Professor Amy” and “Please punch me Amy” written in student books will never score them extra marks but it definitely added a much needed smile to the mundane notebook marking scene.

6. Boxing definitely wasn’t as productive as it should have been tonight when MBC decided to call up Snickers during training. We kind of have this “no-cell phones while training” rule, or at least Junior Mint imposes that on many of us, and so I repeatedly told Snickers to end his conversation. He didn’t seem so impressed so he packed up his stuff and headed out the door sulking. Snickers is just as stubborn and set in his way of thinking as I am and so I followed behind him, knowing full well that if one of us didn’t break then we’d continue to butt heads and get no where fast.

7. I know me not being fluent in Korea means that Snickers has become somewhat of a representative/manager for me with the media but I hate how they always call him first instead of me. I can do phone interviews and I have done phone interviews. The last phone interview I did lasted about forty minutes and okay, it left me feeling somewhat brain dead, but I respected the fact that they came straight to me. MBC has been ringing Snickers’ cell phone off the hook and it’s like they’re making one long phone call when they do call, instead, they make about five phone calls to follow up with questions or whatnot from the previous phone call.

8. Snickers and I may be as stubborn as mules and sulk like children but we’re puddy in each others’ hands and it doesn’t take much to crack a smile on the others’ face. Snickers may have left the boxing club in a sour puss mood but by the time we hit the second light on our walk home, our fighting went from us arguing to me literally fighting him off my face… hahaha. I swear he was trying to drown me in kisses… hahaha.

9. I’ve been trying to be more productive with my time lately and so I’ve been super anal with my schedule these days, writing down a million and one things to do. From responding to particular emails to training, I’ve been writing down everything in my agenda.

10. One thing I didn’t get done today was responding to an email sent to me by the IFBA President (IFBA as in the International Female Boxers Association). I emailed her the other day to apologize for not staying in contact with her and to express my thoughts about the unfairness of Lisa Brown’s fight on October 15th. She emailed me back asking me to help “getting the position the the IFBA in fighting for fair judging and sportsmanship out to the appropriate media sources in Korea” but I’m not too sure on how to go about that, not to mention I don’t want to tarnish my own name or those associated with me here in Korean boxing. I do want to help, honestly I do. I just don’t know how though. Korean boxing is very bias, I know that, but I’ve made quite a name for myself here in it and I no longer have to compete with the “home advantage” other foreigners do when they come here to compete because now I am the home girl here.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What do you suggest?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
-- Bill Vaughan