Added pictures of the horrible bug, and the havoc I reaked on my place in it's wake. Kinda regret not having that glass cover on the light, maybe that's why I've always hated having it on.

Lots of new thoughts, not all coming to me currently.

Finished A Prayer for Owen Meany, amazing and strangely moving, as well as Me of Little Faith, a little unexpectedly tame and ironic twists of fate but very appropriate.

Viewed Stephen Colbert's testimony at congress, and at first felt like it was awkward and maybe inappropriate, but after slightly more consideration think it was the right place and time, if only people understood laughter.

New hopes for change:

I want to help peace in Korea and Israel

I also really want to end the practice of carelessly throwing flyers and other trash on the ground in Korea.

I miss home and am happy to be approaching the end of my contract but I will also miss it out here a lot.

I love the idea of a dream journal though I have some trouble keeping up with it. Alex pointed out the brilliant idea (I guess it's called journaling) of writing down one special thing of every day- would leave a person with a lot to look back on one day.

great link

http://gizmodo.com/5634257/ikea-let-loose-a-herd-of-100-cats-into-store-to-see-what-happens

sun is risen, UCLA is defeated, friends have departed from DMZ

last night I saw the largest Fireworks show ever, the Seoul Great Fireworks (fireflower) Festival (which I know how to write in Korean but have not practiced enough on the keyboard to do without the Korean keyboard which is all the way over there....)

Finally went to Gyeongju, only for about 12 hours though. Will go back. Jinju, too. 3 or 4 large festivals going on, including the South River Lantern Festival, which we saw and purchased fireworks at (which end up being vaguely fun and dangerous after the fireworks exhibition in Seoul). Watched bull fighting (like 2 bulls butting heads till one backs down) entertaining, touched a couple of bulls, and had a chance to win a bull calf (or a tv, unfortunately not victorious).

Bought a tamagotchi in Jinju, played with it the whole ride back from Jinju, very frustrated about the reset button being so easy to hit. Turns out its a knockoff. Still it was entertaining for 2 dollars, and maybe I'll find a good home for it.

People are kicking ass by the way. Matt is making sets in NYC for good money, Shea is engaged to be wed and with child and extremely thrilled about it, friends from High School are professional cheerleaders and business people, travellers, and much more. Time to make more of myself.

Band added a lot of new songs, which is great. Need to keep practicing my Korean, but it's slowly getting decent.

Ok enough rambling in an attempt to remember what I thought I would put up here. Ah I think it was rantings about the skewed perspective and priorities of the Korean people, ok more on that next time, for now sleep and restorative food.

Be well =)