Buddhist College Redux

So, they've contacted me again, and apparently they are revisiting the job - that is, re-opening it. They'd like to interview me.

Hmmmmmm.....

hard to say they seem very organized.... I guess I need to see if I can get slid to the Nearly a Bizness Skool over here. If not I should be gone...

America's National Nightmare Extends to District 5 in Placer County.

Where tree-hugging moonbat, goth, satan-worshipper and possible vegan Jennifer Montgomery has somehow unseated Bruce Kranz. Montgomery's hippie-coven of unwashed worshippers celebrated the victory by sacrificing innocent Christian babies and drinking their blood under the watchful eyes of international Jewry who had stopped by after a busy day sabotaging the world economy and before their dinner of the spleens of martyrs.

Back to my nap.

We're all Terrorist Socialiss Now!

Whoohoo! Obama won.

I can get my old vinyl copy of "The Internationale" out of its sleeve, raise the red flag, and tax the sperm of heterosexual Republicans (a truly "progressive" tax, but one that will have to be high, due to the small number of folks who fit both categories) to fund the abortion of cheerleaders by homosexual doctors who will raise the boy-fetuses in tubes, to later use in their hideous forced-gay-marriage ceremonies. The hard-working CEO, whose brow-sweat and calloused hands eked a meager $50 million dollar golden parachute out of their failing mortgage company will be denied unemployment compensation will will be used to fund dastardly deeds including medical procedures for people who need them.

There will be no end to my villainy.

For now, though, it's nap time..

Rainology and Pourology

Heh,

BKF has enlisted my help on a little (130 page) deal with Ewha and, POW!, on my desk lands the possibility of a 300+ page work of fiction that needs help. Alla this due before the birthday falls.

Thank God it's November, is all I have to say..

What to do..

Apparently the Civil Defense Office joins our intrepid old-lady from the previous post in recommending dildoes for just about any problem you might have.

And now I have a new hypochondria health worry . My blood pressure sometimes drops directly after I exercise.

Google thoughtfully reveals that this is a sign of early heart disease and that I am certain to die young (well, as young as I can at this advanced age).

As many of my schemes were premised on immortality, I feel that this is a bit of a blow to them.

I'll get back to you all with the rethink on my plans. Maybe tomorrow - if I live that long!

Korean Tubology

Cruising around the channels on Friday I came upon this classic clip, which I can't believe is being shown at about 10 at night. It's apparently some Canadian sex expert who has a rather strong penchant for turning things into discussions of anal stimulation and has an alarming way of fondling, shall we say, 'toys.' I need to slow this clip down and look at the subtitles to see how the translators dealt with such complicated phrases as "butt plugs" and "thunder thighs." (I'm guessing they are just translated phonetically, but who knows).

Anyway, as if dope smoking and child-molestation weren't enough, Canada now gives us the Octogenarian Sex Mama...

Symptoms

I remember from some long ago health lecture that the symptoms of the flu are how the body fights it.. the fever is to kill the virus, the coughing and mucous is to expell it.

So, if you use something that reduces symptoms, are you slowing down the bodies' defensive efforts?

Ah well, back to my fever dreams..

Pain in the Bones...

Sick as a dog… had to teach til 7:20 pm and then staggered home. Got in and turned the heater to maximum. I had a fever, but my bones were aching like I was a 90 year-old black woman/prophetess in some bad Steven King movie. “Oooh lawdy, I noes I too ode to live through alla ‘dis heah, but I feels pow’ful evil approaching.” The heat treatments lasted about 2 hours and then I took a walk through the cold and foggy streets here. My bones were nice and liquid and the cold tightened my skin.

I’m back home with the window open and the cold pouring in; also harboring the delusion that this will break the fever. For now I’ll just enjoy the surrealism that a good fever brings. House seemed extra cynical and the K1 fighters look like demented insects. All I can tell is that some Korean guy is beating some guy from a country with a flag that looks like a direction sign at an airport: green, blue, red and white..all pointing right. Beochir Kaleekoda if I read the Hangul correctly.

Heh.. I should note that one thing I love about Korean TV is that it doesn’t play many commercials, and when it does, it chunks them together. I had noticed this in dramas, but the other day I watched Oprah and, since I didn’t watch it at home, I had no idea that it sometimes ran about 25 seconds of Oprah and then a commercial. Korean TV can’t hide the fade outs so you get Oprah for half-a-minute, fade in/out, Orprah followed by fade in/out and this repeated about five times in a row. It looks ludicrous but I find it highly entertaining.

SCRAPS -Midterms; Editing; Language; Assorted

I'm not normally a big fan of bullets, but a couple of unrelated things:

• I have a nasty cold which syncs well with the crappy grey and damp weather we are having around here. Thank God this will be a stay-in weekend.
  
  
• In the course of one of the oral mid-terms I asked my students to describe their father. One of them did the normal thing "nice, etc." but then, struggling for something to add, said..."and.. and... he's a.... a supergenius!" I nearly fell out of my chair, but I was happy that at least one student listens to things I say. (Apologies to the only true superJenius, the MAF)
  
  
• The BKF may have lined up a big project for us to work on. I hope so, since I've missed that kind of work. It's with Ewha, so it's prestigious, but it is also a lot of work for BKF, over a hundred pages, due in late November.
  
  
• I have found yet another free Korean class which I will attend for the remaining four weeks of my five week plan to dominate 한국 말. It's on Monday nights from 7:30 to 9:00 and it is on campus.
  
  
• Finally, I did get my holiday schedule, so I will be flying to SFO on January 24th and leaving from SFO on February 12th. Everyone alter their existing plans accordingly. ;-)
  

Mens of Letters

Hehe.. got my first letter back from my penpal and it was excellent and humbling. The penpal is, by nurture or nature, a teacher.

I received some corrections and a letter back with some new verbs and very simple terms. I could figure it out (translation dictionary in hand), but it stretched me.

The humbling bit? Missing a marker like “에서” (meaning “from”). Crap, I’d just “learned” that one. ;-)

Yet, with that having happened, “에서” should now be burnt into my brain just above the spot where the lizard things end and where the pornography ones begins. Meaning, this marker should not be forgotten! ;-)

I will be, forever, a bloody 에서 (uh… you need to do that phonetically, and mispronounce it a bit, to understand the “joke”).

It’s all part of the five week plan.

Because that is as long as I can stay on one. ;-p

Not that I would stop trying to learn, but I hope this 5 weeks will demonstrate that I can learn something in a different language.

As it turns out (I await the “I told you so” guffaws)? I may be too stoopid to learn a new language. ;-)

Luckily, I’m not to stoopid for RawknRoll and so I’m off to the store to purchase a beer. Then back home to listen to “Tommy”.

I’m sure it will make me wish that I were Canadian.