little willy lyrics~sweet

Mr. Ed arrives sometime tomorrow.

And if you know Ed and know old rock?

You just switch "Eddie" into this song for "Willie".

I couldn't be happier..

Canadia in a nutshell (a highly appropriate place)

From the lads at Get Fuzzy:

AM Ajumma ATTACK!

Having slept like crap last night, I was still in bed at 9:50 AM when the Ajumma decided it was time for her annual inspection of the apartment. So, groggily, I hear some little bell ringing off in the distance and recognizing it is not my iPhone, I decide to ignore it.

Ignoration (one of my most honed skills) becomes useless when I hear a key in the lock and the door scraping open. Since I know The Lovely Wife is at her gainful employment, I also know it is the Ajumma. I crack open the bedroom door and croak out an "Ajumma" just as she is pealing out an "Ajumma" of her own - this is how she announces herself.

When she sees my tousled (but adorable!) head peeking out of the bedroom door and hears me saying "Just a minute," she flies into a panicked storm of high-pitched Korean. By the time I have my shirt and trousers on, she is gone.

Fortunately the house, while disheveled, is not that dirty. A quick 20 minute cleaning job and now it is ready for her sneak return which, I bet, will be a bit more sneaky now that she has been "caught," so to speak.

Still, it was good to have a chance to clean up TLW's detritus in the living room. The Ajumma would not have found much to be critical about, but she can cluck in disapproval like 30 divorcees drinking estrogen milkshakes. We can't have that.

Now the place is shining liking a diamond (but not too clean so she knows it's all fake), we should be in the clear.

Off to the coffee shop to do all these editing jobs that seem to have piled up over the weekend.

LOLCATZ - Beer Leg Cold Touch?

So I'm doing some editing for a big important University here.. it's actually for one of the Korean Chaebol.

As I'm working through the text I'm also checking the URLs they have in it, to make sure there have been no typos.

What do I discover?

I'm editing for a product I think I can get behind:


Sounds good to me!

Oh so very out of shape!

The lovely wife and I joined the gym today.... she's doing cardio (and I hope getting into a stretching class, since she's still kind of gimpy from that car crash a long time ago) and I'm doing cardio and some (embarrassingly light) weightlifting... Thank God my schedule means that I'm in the gym in relatively off hours. ^^

Instruction begins tomorrow, so its back to the kiddies. We got an extra day off today for the anniversary of the March First Movement.... flags everywhere on buildings and some stores closed...

Lazy afternoon at home, now, prepping for classes and writing my last set of book reviews for 10 Magazine..

Stalking Chicken Again..

That lovely chicken stock I made the other day has now been made into two delicious breakfasts of tofu and mushroom soup. It looks like this:


And is surprisingly delicious. I think the chicken-stock thing might become a regular part of the old repertoire.....

And, unrelated, if you don't think that looks tasty? I've snapped the lovely photo below in which you are WARNED!

Does it make me a dirty stinking animal...

That I'm just about to take my first shower since before I left the US?

If I'm going to see my new buddies today, I might as well not smell like the Bowery...

Back to the Grind!

After a long and exhausting vacation, we are back in Seoul and attempting to settle into our own little domestic blister. The Lovely Wife is off setting up a doctor's appointment, while I putter around the apartment...

First step is to finish the reduction of my chicken stock. The night we got home the grilled chicken man was at the bottom of our hill and we grabbed two chickens. Yesterday, with what was left of them, I started a stock and today, with the grease removed from the top, it looks a little like this:



A bit of reduction and then into the freezer!

I also got my iPhone, which makes me feel super cool and with it. Today is all about learning how it works and syncing it to iTunes on my computer (I have been without portable music for about four months). This should also be good for my Korean study, as now I will have something to listen to when I am on the treadmill at the gym.

I also found a super-cool program (Bento) that will help me with my book-buying campaign here in Korea, and with the KTLIT thing. I've started databasing all the Korean translations I have (by "started" I mean I figured the program out, laid out my database, put two books into it, then became bored!). But once I get this inputting done, I will no longer accidentally buy duplicate books, and when I am looking for a particular short story I will be able to find it in whatever books it has been published in. Should simplify things vastly.

School begins next Tuesday, and after two years of having unspecific goals, I think it is time to go back to the model I used the first year here, and set out some very specific goals about work, play, travel, health, etc... because that first year I pretty much accomplished everything I listed, but in the next two years became a bit ad-hocish....

Tomorrow should be a great day - I'm going out to lunch with Bruce Fulton and Stephen Epstein and a whole crew of translation/blogger dudes and dudettes.. These are heavy hitters and its nice to be invited to hang out with them..

I Have a Whole New Personality

It still sucks, but it turns out I'm not a Sagittarius as there are now 13 astrological signs, instead I'm apparently on the cusp of Scorpio and Ophiuchus/Serpentarius.

I'm still trying to figure out what it means.. but since I'm either the archer, the scorpion, or the snake-bearer, I'm pretty cool with it...

Piss off all you crabs, twinned fishies and sea-goats!^^

I wrote a little song:

With the sun in the ninth constellation
Mere concern burgeons to aggravation
Stupidity rules our mighty nation
and peace is only found in bars

this is the dawning of the age of Ophiuchus
the age of Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus

Agony misunderstanding
treachery and lust abounding
revealing falsehoods and derisions
horrific and satanic visions
and the minds complete submission

Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus


With the sun in the ninth constellation
Mere concern burgeons to aggravation
Stupidity rules our mighty nation
and peace is only found in bars


this is the dawning of the age of Ophiuchus
the age of Ophiuchus

Ophiuchus
Ophiuchus

It's a Deep Purple Kind of Day!

Beauty.... it won't get below negative 8 today... some incredibly light snow flashing around horizontally. A fusion breakfast of half a tortilla, an orange and a tuna kimbab. Now, with the coffee in the cup and the rock and roll blasting on the office speakers, as is temporarily well.

Navigating the campus today is a bit ragged as it seems to be one of the days that freshmen and their families come on campus and the traffic control guys are all over the place - like epileptic rats on speed, attempting to cope with something they never thought possible: an entire generation of older Korean who are incapable of reading traffic signs, even those as simple as arrows.

I'm safe for now. And my office is clean, since the Arirang TV people came by last Thursday to film intro and B-roll for my upcoming show. They were super-pro; in and out of the classroom in less than 20 minutes, and then interviews with two students and Rob, from Roboseyo, whose interview answer was one-take and complete (and awfully nice). I commented on that, and he said, "toastmasters." LOL.. when he had to teach a speech class he enrolled, just to perfect his own skills.

Now it's time to print out some stuff for a writing job, go bookshopping and get home to clean the place up - we have a couch-surfer coming in tomorrow and I want to make an entirely artificial impact. ^^