things i miss abt korea

all the time i find myself saying to a largely indifferent audience, "it's like that time in korea when..."

maybe it's time to share my list of things i loved about korea.

• you can charge your cell phone at almost any convenient store.
• yuk-gye-jang for hangovers.
• gye-ran cho-rim.
• melona bars.
• how i'm watching the korean news right now, and they just wrapped up with a story completely devoted to meh-gi-tang.
• how you can e-mail a news reporter because they include their e-mail addresses in their signon

there were other things but i don't feel like consulting the written list that i compiled in a desperate attempt at optimism.

you can tell someone's korean because of they always (not ineffably) look as though they're eagerly awaiting failure.

this weekend included a hangover, free medium pizza with purchase of beer, "veselka!", old age = the silent killer, amazing prosciutto/garlic butter hors d'oeuvres and CAKE (i almost forgot about the cake...but how could i? it was soo good) and drinking in the wonders of "parental control".

i also lost my cellphone.

i do have an idea for a short story. maybe inspired by an old nylon article about maggie gyllenhaal that mentioned the lack of good roles for young actresses. i can't think of much yet except (somewhat lamely) no dialogue and maybe a rearview mirror.

me and mia

Do you believe in something beautiful
Get up and be it
-Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

the day i fit into my size 6 MJ jeans although clearly...not the process i went through to get there.

getting sick

You say you’ve seen seven wonders
And your bird is green
But you can’t see me
You can’t see me
-The Beatles

ever since we all figured out how to share music over iTunes at work i've been having so much fun! thinking back to bopping around in basements, doing O.M. stuff.

i'm getting sick. i never get sick!