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the slide, it tempted me.

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The list of things I wanted to accomplish during my week of desk warming:

-complete one full push up

-work on my memoir

-write a few farewell letters

-read “The First Days of School” by Harry and Rosemary Wong

-write a mass e-mail home as well as catch up on e-mailing friends

-save someone’s life

-get all my English summer camp activities together

It is now Friday morning and this is what I have accomplished:

Karate Kid, Enchanted, Eclipse, Kung Fu Panda (excellent, really excellent), and the ninth season of Smallville (love me some superman). Really? A whole week of sitting at my desk and nothing to show for it? I remember in college when I would procrastinate so badly I found myself at work in the Writing Center (receptionist/consultant/the grunt girl who did everything no one else would do) realizing at 9 a.m. that I had a paper due at 11 a.m. whipped out the paper by 10:48 and ran across campus to class. I totally got an A on that paper too, what can I say? I work well under pressure.

This week I forgot my lunch at home (a lovely salad sitting on my ‘kitchen’ counter) and actually got the okay to leave the school during lunchtime and go buy something to eat (I have forgotten my lunch before and given no such special treatment, normally I have to get permission on paper from three different people to leave). It was amazing and I was so happy that when I passed a playground on my way to Paris Baguette I saw this really high slide and just had to try it out. The last time I slid down a slide… wow, it has been years. The slide wasn’t that great actually, looked much higher from the ground than it was. I realized afterwards that I probably looked like some weirdo foreigner by myself sliding down slides (which is exactly true) and saw moms lead their little kids away from the sandbox, but  I didn’t care. I was FREE.

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This ROKetship comic is exactly how I felt this week when I started running in the mornings wearing my t-shirt and shorts and passing by everyone else in their full body suits… haha, for those of you who know me and just choked on your laughter/spit/water/orange juice/ whatever it is you are drinking or eating right now at the thought of me running… I know, I know. It sounds crazy. The thing is I am starting to eat salad and run because I want to be able to spar in taekwondo, and I want to fight people who are shorter than me so I can have an advantage since I haven’t been sparring very long… and in order to fight shorter people you need to go down in your weight class, and in order to go down in weight class you need to not weigh as much as you do. As in, as much as I do. So… I am running? Oh, life. You are so funny.

“Service-eeee!”

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I had dinner with a friend tonight, and I decided to do something crazy. I finally decided to treat my skin nice and wash it every once in a while, so I bought a face washing kit thing. It’s Korean, and advertised by my favorite Korean actress Koo Hye Sun (who plays a character named Jan Di on the first Korean drama I ever watched ‘Boys Before Flowers’) so I just had to get it. As I was reading the English portion of the face wash stuff in the store I laughed out loud:

“ADefying is a brand name for caring of skin trouble generated by excessive sebum secretion and generation of horny substance due to internal and external blablabla…”

HAHAHA, maybe I don’t want to use this face stuff after all…er….

But I did buy it, and instead of leaving the story with my box of face wash I got a whole lot more than what I bargained for. That sounds bad, I got more than I expected? That might be a better word… One of the things I will miss the most when I leave Korea is ‘service’. I will probably go back home to the States, buy some lotion and when it is handed to me look in the bag saying: “but where is my service?” and the check out person (almost said check out lady which would be totally sexist so I didn’t, phew) will say: “I have no idea what you are talking about, but actually you owe 2 dollars more because we just added a new tax five minutes ago.” and then I will say: “but I want my free stuff!” and then I will whip out my taekwondo moves on her  (I mean him or her) and get arrested and go back to Korea as soon as my family pays bail. Or something like that.

So there is this thing called ROKetship (see what he did there? with the ROK- republic of Korea, get it? get it? anyway you can find it and like it on fb here) and this guy Luke Martin makes these comics, ROKetship comics that is, and he is hilarious, I mean the comics are hilarious I don’t actually know him, but I would totally love to meet him.  He has a lot of material to work with because the comics are basically about my life here in Korea (and what is NOT weird about my life here in Korea?), and by my life I mean all of the foreigners in general who live in Korea.

I am bringing this up because I am about to post the comic that goes with what just happened to me today. I have already posted one of Luke Martin’s ROKetship comics in a previous post called I get upset when I have to hold my trash and walk fifty blocks (because I do, I really do). Moving on. Here is the comic.

I have now fallen in love with ROKetship comics to the point where anytime anything is semi-related to what I am saying you will read it through comic as well, so thank you Luke Martin. Now if I could just get him to write one about spit on the street, can’t believe that hasn’t been done yet…

I am going to go wash my face now.