Highlights of my Day... Thursday, March 12

1. Taught three lectures straight which worked out to 6 straight hours with just enough time in between each lecture to race off to the next classroom. It would have gone a lot smoother had the computer not kicked my butt and tried my patience… yet again. In my second class the computer decided it didn’t want to upload my Power Point presentation I had emailed to myself. “Why don’t you just use a USB?” one of my coworkers asked. “Well” I started to answer, “because these computers here are ho’s”. It’s true, too. So many students and professors use these computers, making it a perfect means of spreading and passing computer viruses, and after the big USB crash of 2007 I’ve lost my faith in them.

2. Had a bit of a much expected flip-out on one of the assistants after I the computer failed to upload my file and I had already called the tech guy. I called her from my cell phone in front of the class and she insisted I waited to see if the dude could fix it. I didn’t have time for her small talk and I didn’t have time to wait for some tech dude. Class had already started and with over 40 faces starring at me, waiting for my lecture to begin, the last thing I really wanted was to wait. What she should have done was assigned me a different room for the lecture. Anyways, my class ended up starting 30 minutes late but I waited till after my lecture was over to give her a piece of my mind. “It would have only taken you 5 minutes to check the room list and assign me a different classroom… so, ya… thanks” was all I said. I was ticked.

3. Last semester I had a particular not-so-secret admirer at school, a student ( not my student) who use to drop by one of my classes to meet up with his friend, a junior of his and a student of mine. Like clockwork, he’d come every week to my class and then flatter me with small talk. I always thought it was super cute but didn’t really think much of it really until I walked into one of my classes today and there he was. He’s now a student of mine in one of my reading classes… hahaha.

4. My last class of the day was filled to the brim with many of my much adored last semester Tuesday morning students and so I’m really loving this class already. Actually, many of my other Tuesday morning students are scattered in some of my other reading classes and so it’s pretty awesome to walk into each of my reading classes and be greeted by them.

5. Taking the bus after school is always “interesting” when I get stuck in the after school rush.

6. With White Day being just days away I’m not too sure if Q has remembered so tonight I came flat out and told him not to buy me candy. For those of you who don’t know what White Day is, well, basically it is Valentine’s Day but for girls because Valentine’s Day is for guys here in Korea. It’s totally a market-made holiday, I know, but what I want to know is why chocolate is the expected gift for guys but us girls get stuck with candy?! I don’t like candy. Actually, come to think of it I don’t really like chocolate either. I only really like white chocolate, now bread or ice cream, that’s another story… hahaha.

7. I was the designated DJ at boxing tonight and so I plugged in my iPod and cranked up some rockin’ tunes courtesy of Lady Gaga, Gwen Stafani, Eminem (for Panty Boy Jr), Pink, and Beyonce.

8. As if one of the sand bags was killed already with tape over tape to replace the tape already there because of someone punching a hole in it, tonight I broke the tape… oops. I’m sure it was weakening already but I was kind of proud of being the one responsible for officially breaking it… hahaha. I just don’t know my own strength… hahahahahahahahaha.

9. The thought that I’m a rotten, rotten person flashed into my mind for a split second after I ran into a rebellious friend of mine downtown. I saw him standing at the lights, across from me, with what appears to be yet another new girlfriend and upon spotting him. She was stunningly beautiful, just like those before her and as I looked at her I thought “You must be a stupid girl.”… that’s terrible, I know. I don’t understand it though. OK, so he’s my friend but I would never in a million years subject another friend of mine to date him, gosh no (and Homegirl you know who I’m talking about here!!!) It’s not that he’s a bad guy but instead it’s because he’s such a trouble maker. He’s a bit of a pervert and he’s always picking fights with random dudes in the street. His hobbies consist of maxing out his drinking limits, changing girlfriends like the average person changes their socks, and then calling me up to tell me about it… hahaha. But ya, he’s my friend. He’s one of the first people I met when I first moved to Korea and so we’ve been friends for 4 years. And although he hasn’t really changed much, he’s always been that downtown freak, I like him because he’s not a cookie-cut-out Korean guy and he’s never been anything but honest and open. I respect that about him. No sooner did that “You must be a stupid girl” thought enter my mind and leave, but I felt bad. I felt bad not because of what I thought but because him going through women like there’s no tomorrow isn’t funny. He continually sets himself up to get hurt and that’s not cool. I’ve never really tried to give him advice on girlfriends but he is where I use to be in that I use to be afraid to be alone and so I went through this period in my life, bouncing from one boyfriend to the next. Nothing good comes if you rush things. He needs to learn to wait, see what it is he wants and then when it comes, go for it.

10. I can’t believe I’m writing this but what’s up with all the “hobby-picking” that goes on in Korea, and by hobby-picking I’m referring to the fact that there seems to be an excess amount of people in Korea that have no shame with picking their nose in public.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Have they no shame?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
-- William Penn