Dear "Open Office"

Please don't install your bullshit with the default that it opens docx files..

You shitheads..

Thank you very much..

Charles..

WorkZZZZ

For those of you who might want to listen to my nasally but grating voice deliver inaccuracies in broken grammar? You can go here where I have a lovely online podcasty-type-thing of my interview with TBS eFM about Shin Kyung-sook and whatnot.

On the written hand, my piece for Yonhap on Korean literature has been accepted, and the KLTI is having me write a short piece on humor in translated Korean literature.

Also, I think I forgot to link the article about me in the Herald. Again, Korean literature and whatnot. The whatnot includes my bizarre hairdo.

It's really, pretty much, all about the whatnot....

The AGUE slowly recedes..

The Lovely Wife, more troubled in voice than I, had to go to work.

I stayed at home and resolutely ignored the fact that I was supposed to have a paper done by this evening. I figured I'd give some bullshit excuse and pass it off til tomorrow.

So it was I could experiment with Henry's levels of carrot insertion (Google it, maybe?) and work on some tapes of interviews I did with the translator of "Please Look After Mom." You can be an idiot if I interview you, but I will delete all interlocutory sounds.

Cause that's the law.

That's why.

Then the call came, late in the afternoon, that I couldn't bullshit to the next day. Two hours of hard grind at the laptop, and I had a defensible 2000 words to send off.

Call from The Big Publisher about a meeting, wife comes home says no way she's going, I go off to meeting, meeting good - I get invitation to his wedding, back home, my wife asleep, me nearly in coma...

And so there you are.... another Monday (or something like that to you), in the land of tomorrow!

For one moment I had a lot of friends...

Sometimes..

A man just needs to play some Johnny Cash on the Digital Jukebox...

If he never does, he is less than a man. ^^

It's Just Like Facebook!

I took this test.. and what it said was

Thoughtful to the extreme, you are often obsessed with perfection and the rules governing your own personal interests. Your world is black and white. You love to work within a logical system, such as language, computer programming, or mathematics. Manipulating a system that can be completely understood is a distinct pleasure to you, because of your confidence in the underlying veracity of your belief system. Because of your appreciation for logic and order, those who speak or think in a sloppy manner are apt to generate more than their share of wrath. Although very amiable, you are not drawn to friendships out of a sense of personal need. You are just as happy by yourself with a good book or puzzle. Because you are so involved with thought, you will on occasion have difficulty dealing with the day-to-day problems of a normal life. Taking out the trash, doing the dishes, these are often left until the last possible moment, if at all.

Major (Le()AGUE Symptoms..

The ague hangs on tenaciously, though I am not nearly as affected as my lovely wife whose loveliness, I must say was dented by intense snuffling, liver-coughing-up, and couch-sprawling.

I was at least well enough to come out today - a lovely day.. and as it turns out the stage of vAGUEness I'm in is perfect for editing... the words do lovely little dances and, strangely, I can concentrate better.

Which is good as I'm doing some super interesting stuff for an upcoming literary conference. It's well translated and fun to read.. the current article has some Korean discussing the ongoing death of the novel, and since he begins with "A Modest Proposal" in his title, I'm waiting to see what kind of shoe drops at the end of the essay...

Four day weekend, since today was mountain-climbing day for the school...

Good times..

Off for some coffe and a bAGUEtte.....

The (v)AGUE in the hizzy..

We are both hell of ill, as the hella cool, having hellish fevers, feverishly say...

Tomorrow is "climb the mountain" day for our lovely Uni, which we had planned to attend (the Uni is closed for the climg), but now we will likely lay at home moaning in pain.

the Herald piece has already netted two other ones.. List Magazine (pretty prestigious) wants a brief article from me on humor in translated Korean literature, and some "hip" LG online mag wants me for an interview subject.

Weird in its way, but if any of this ever leads to ANY Korean institution supporting the Wikipedia Project? I'm all for it.

At the same time (to use a Konglish trope), we're struggling forward on the planned book of essays from expats (Say fellah! that "essays for expats" is a pretty hip title! Wanna work on a book?)

Eh.. we went out for dinner tonight with two servings of Kimchi, soup, and tons of lean meat. Hopefully we get healed...

Me in a Paper..

Look Ma, I'm famous! KTLIT, The Wikipedia Project and Me, in the Korea Herald: http://bit.ly/gWqZAU

Dear NPR, your twee music sucks!

So I will be listening to KQED online.... they seem to prefer content..