Highlights of my Day... Monday, February 2

1. Italiano texted me, warning me that if I dare let people get to me he's not going to buy me ice cream this summer.... hahaha. Ok, lesson learned.

2. I use to blame trouble for finding me but now that I'm older, and you would think more wiser, it's me I blame for purposely going out and finding trouble. I just need an escape from this mundane, ultra predictable, totally bombarded with routine and blah life that I have here lately in Korea. I guess "escape" is not really the appropriate word here but I don't know what is. With all this time on my hands, now more so cause I'm on a two month holiday, you'd think I'd be filing up my schedule with friends, mini day trips, shopping sprees, and whatnot... but I'm not.

My days usually go like this:
10am wake up, have meal #1, do some work on the Internet
12pm head over to Hongik to go running
1pm come home, shower, walk Mi Nam, and have meal #2
2pm start studying Korean
4pm have meal #3 and continue studying Korean
7pm stop studying, have meal #4, and clean up the house
8pm go boxing
10pm come home from boxing, have meal #5, walk Mi Nam, and read a book
12am go to sleep

3. Don't get me wrong, I love my "quiet time" but I'm getting way too much of it. And as for my Korean studies... look out! I'm on fire... hahaha. That book I bought on Sunday, well, it's supposed to take four weeks to finish but at the rate I'm going at, I think I'll be finished it in a week.

4. My desperate desire to pull myself out of this blah hole I've recently found myself in has been causing my attraction to trouble all that more stronger. Today it's strength reached it's peak and, as a result, I found myself on the KTX, going on a little "business errand".

5. With no other things on my schedule today except for eating my five meals, which I'm very religious about lately, I happily sat on the KTX train and traveled over three hours (seven hours, there and back) for a certain envelop... an envelop that I then almost forgot in a public bathroom on my way back... oh gosh.

6. Just like I promised Q, today I mastered yesterday's Korean story. Mind ya, with a six hour KTX train ride to kill, it wasn't that hard. It was the only thing besides whatever was in my wallet and my lip gloss that I had on me that I could have found any kind of amusement with.

7. Discovered one of the coolest PC rooms in Korea and updated my homepage before heading back to Cheonan. I'm not particularly fond of PC rooms. They're cheap but usually overly crowded with students and they tend to be a bit on the smoky/smelly side. But the PC room I checked out today was definitely hype. It had these oh-so-cozy seats that had speakers built into the headrest and it vibes in que with whatever tunes you are playing.

8. When Mi Nam sneezed in my face, I took it as a definite sign I needed to wash the couch cover. Getting it off was easy but getting it back on, good golly Miss Molly, I almost needed to call in a brain surgeon to help me... hahaha. Ok, so it wasn't that bad but Mi Nam insisting on jumping on it while I struggled didn't help.

9. I had done it... I had pulled myself out of my blah hole today and I felt accomplished. No more lagging around the house and wondering what's next. I had taken control, made my move, and decided what would be my next move. Mind ya in doing so, little did I know that someone else was working out my next move for me, Junior Mint. I was convinced I had been sold out, played for a fool and strung along, but low and behold I got a phone call. It was from Junior Mint, asking me why I had missed training when I have a fight in two weeks. So supposedly the fight is back on. I'll believe it when Junior Mint adds the word "with" and a name to his sentence.

10. And so, on that note, I continued my studying long into the late evening. Q dropped by to read beside me and I had to giggle, knowing that he had no idea what trouble I had been up to today. I once clued him into my little "side project" but he didn't dare ask questions. That's something that I both love and hate about Q, he's a simple man who doesn't ask a lot of questions because he doesn't care to stress about the finer details. He's got this whole "what I don't know won't hurt me" kind of mentality, quite the opposite of me and my over analyzing brain. "If only he knew..." I told myself, "If only I could say..."

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's so bad about being bad?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett