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Category Archives: Life

Kim Jong Il is dead

And so it happens – sooner than I expected it to happen, although in retrospect, the strokes he’d suffered last year probably should have been a clear indication of the beginning of the end. I found out from a student – Tom, in fact. I didn’t have much time to react to this pretty impressive [...]

Makeup Fail

Confession: at the age of twenty-eight, I am a total doofus when it comes to makeup. Part of this is the luxury of good genetics; I’ve been able to coast by without having to cover up any acne scars or too many pimples. (Commence hating, y’all). Every now and then, I will get a zit [...]

Notes from the Field

I’ve really been neglecting this blog. I know this because yesterday I was scanning my blog entries from this past year, looking for anecdotes I could use in my writeup for the school yearbook. Yes, plagiarizing my own blog. It would have been a lot easier to do this if I’d posted with more frequency [...]

A year and some days

Strapped to a parachuted man, I jumped off a mountain and landed, spinning wildly, into my second year here in Korea. I still can’t believe it’s been a year. I can’t believe it’s already October. I haven’t fully landed yet, either – spent my weeks frantically prepping awesome lessons for students to ignore, while the [...]