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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..

Sweeeeet!

The big girl's joint (which is NOT the title of a porno) has a new quick editing gig...

Tons of work.. few days...

perfect...

Dentistry in the Land of Tomorrow?

Maybe it was bloody smock on the dentist, or the fact that, as a sole concession to cleanliness, she turned the spit-stained gloves she was wearing inside out before examining me?

But I was nervous.

And the crusty pick with the head like the ball of a mace? The one she was trying to cram into my mouth?

Did not make me any calmer.

I woke up screaming..

Cool.. day to go to the dentist and it began with a dream like that.

As a bonus, I had a cold. Class went by quickly and then I slammed down two Nyquil as the idea of drowning in a pool of my own snot while some strange woman had two fists halfway into my larynx was not appealing. Well, it was kind of appealing, but I had the feeling the actual dentist would be dressed and probably not have ambiguous genitalia.

I hopped into the subway and headed for the wrong station.

This meant that the map I held in my sweaty palm was pretty useless. I finally figured out I needed to hop back on the subway and got to the right station. Here, the map made much more sense, and I ended up at the dentist’s office.

Which was AWESOME. Super new equipment, English speaking staff, and the dentist is the wife of a friend of mine.

Some technology I had not yet experienced. The X-ray was taken all at once with a rotary X-ray machine and then went straight to the monitor in front of the chair I was in. They also took photos inside the mouth of all my fillings. When it came time to test my bad tooth, I held a metal rod in my right hand while some cool gizmo shot electricity into my teefs. The bad tooth felt no shock, so the pulp (or something) was dead.

Dentist says, “root canal” and I start preparing (I was a Boy Scout, you see) to pee myself. She looks at the clock and says, “it will take about 20 minutes, can you wait?”

I’m quite happy with that and say yes. They also give me painkiller without using a needle. I’m not sure how that was done, but it was the first time it ever happened to me.

20 minutes later and the whole thing is done.

I walk out and make another appointment (for there is more to do). The receptionist quotes the bill..

Wha?!?!!?…. I heard “man…” something, something… Holy crap! “man” is 10,000 in Korean and my brain can’t assemble a number (in Korea) that starts with “man” that isn’t the price of a major appliance.

I get the bill and I’ve heard her properly, just not how little came after the “man.” The bill is 11,800 …. Pennies!!! Won!

I just had all of this work done for $10, US.

Amazing… fast, efficient, clean, painless, and unbelievably cheap.

US dental care is fucked up!

Off to the dentist

After some time away..

this could be wrenching... ^^

Late Updates...

Cuz Momz sed so!

Down about 4 kilos from my trip to the States..... not that, of course, you could see it yet.^^

Work continues to be good and the OTHER blog is blowing up because Shin Kyoung-sook is blowing up.

Also, got a really great gig with The Big Woman's Uni doing some editing...

Better than ALLLLLLz of that?

Spring may be here. Sure.. Yellow Dust destroying my lungs.. but man.. you can walk outside. ^^

LOLCATZ - LOLDOGZ, and the loathesome French...