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I am loosing the will to do almost anything!
Up at 8am, washed, clothes ironed, dressed and out the door by 9am. A full days work and I’m home at 5:30pm. (Not counting an hour for lunch - how I used to dream of a job with an hour lunch break!) By the time seven o’clock rolls around it feels like midnight, invariably it is closer to that time that I actually do get to bed - only to do it all over again.
I know I’m whining - sorry.
I know the majority of the adult population in Korea and the rest of the world do this day in and day out - I’m sorry.
But in the last six months since I last taught classes in the morning I have grown accustomed to sleepiing until about 10, laziing about in the morniing, setting off to work at about 1pm, coming home at 8:30 - 9pm and finally pissing about some more until getting into bed around 1:30 - 2am. (Not to mention all the good TV that’s on at about midnight!)
So what’s to be done? Buggered if I know - all I know is "Two weeks down…two to go."
In other news: (In no particular order)
The Jung Chul franchise has undergone a very large rebranding leaving everything from my business card to report forms all out of date. This means that over the next couple of weeks (weekends?) I will have to redo them all - easy, but very tediuos work involved. I will probably get my business cards made proffessionaly on some nice paper. (Remember that scene from American Psycho?) More on that as news comes to hand
Dr Hwan is an outright fake according to most recent reports (although the cloned dog seems to be a bonified break through - excuse the pun) with the Seoul prosecutor’s office raiding his home and officers looking for the billions of Won funneled his way by the governmentto aid in the supposed research into stem cell research (I bet Korean Air isn’t letting him fly first class for free anymore!). I have mentioned before the reverence with which ‘The Boss’ has spoken of the now debunked Dr Hwan and on Wednesday I received an Apology from ‘The Boss’ on behalf of all Koreans in regards to the dispicable lies. Just goes to show how pissed off Koreans are at this guy. (Or at how pissed off they are at themselves for building him up to be something he clearly wasn’t.)
As the weekend approaches I find myself having not the foggiest as to what to do - I am inclined to sleep the weekend away like I did last week but for which I have spent the week feeling quite quilty. I could do my Korean hoomework (I have been putting off a lesson since last Sunday because I’ve just been too knackered to even look at it. But instead of all of this I may go to the City of Daejon and see King Kong at the movies which I see has had pretty mixed reviews and had only like the 10th most successful opening weekend in movie history. (Which means it still made a Kajillion dollars of which I would be happy with less than half.)
In hearing about it on Inside the Net (Part of the This Week in Tech stable of Podcasts) I have been playing arouund with Protopage, what is billed as a personalised homepage - you can put up links, RSS feeds etc on postit note - like sticky notes. You can even use the embedded You Tube player for video and Fliker for your photos. (Although I still don’t like the idea of all my photos on the internet for some reason…). Anyway it is probably worth a look for any of you who carry around your bookmarks in Gmail like I do for when you are at the PC방 like I (used) to do. You can check out my protopage creation here
On a related tech note can anyone tell me why my start button and taskbar sometimes disappear when I resume my laptop from standby or hibernation - I can use the desktop and open files etc no problem but it’s a bitch if I want to start word or search or use something in the notification area!
OCN (Channel 22) has now played every episode of CSI from seasons 1 through 5 and (how sad is my life) I can say I have seen all but a handful (seriously maybe 3?) and now they’re repeating them. And NCIS is being replayed (again) on XTM (Channel 67). Scrubs is playing on Olive (Channel 42) and with no ads it’s only about 15 minutes long - is this wahat watching stuff on an iPod with video is like? I’d say yes if I ever used my PSP but nowadays I drag it out occassionally only to play Lumines - My PSP is almost a year old! (How time flies) but cements the fact that I was one of the first to get one (even before they were out here in Korea) from Japan in March. I soooooooooo want a new iPod too - the old 4GB iPod mini keeps throwing hissy fits and not turning on, not turning off and generally being a bitch. It seems that all of my shit (now being almost 2 years old - say in the case of my laptop) are starting to show their age. Luckily the trusty old Playstation 2 is going great guns - I bought SoulCalibre III a week or so ago - great fighting fun that!
I dropped my phone for the first time tonight - only like a foot, and then proceeded to drag it across the floor before managing to pick it up. Luckily just the cover is scratched to buggery and not the actual phone.
All is confirmed for Dilworth in March (paid and my memorabilia goodies are on the way.) It’s a shame that ‘The Boss’ is freaking me out and insisting that in order to get a cheaper ticket he has to book with 30 days of when I want to leave. This is through Lotte Tours. I’m not sure how it works here in Korea but where I’m from the cheapest tickets are always booked like 6 months in advance…he better not f*&^ it up.
I’ve shaved. I kept the sidies
끝
