MOAR Amrrrca

I'm a bit sleepy and that's stream of consciousness gold right there. I've been home for an entire month after a marvelous (overall, ㅋㅋ*) year teaching English in Korea. That's a lot of ground to cover and it's much more fun to approach it all slapdashery than to actually attempt THIS SENTENCE IS TOO BORING.

* oh yeah. That character is like a 'K' in English and several of them in a row is the Korean version of “haha.”

My sister with a goat!

Oh, so I've quit the Facebook for the time being. If I ever want to publish a comic book before I die (and I do), it's not going to happen if I continue to piss away time at the current rate. I could ramble on about the pros and cons of the thing, but 1. that'd feed more time to the monster and 2. I've already spent pages whinging about it in e-mails to friends. So, that's that. Kerchow!

What's going on here?

I've watched like a bajillion movies and tv shows this past month. Oh, p.s. The Shake Weight is like the cleverest marketing in the universe. The people who made it totally know what it looks like. And that that's a hilarious novelty and enough to get it sold. Genius.

Do you know what I am saying?

BRO LOVES BURGERS. That's a triple whopper, baby. No foolin'.

The county fairs were kinda late this year and I was able to catch the Wattsburg AND the Waterford fair. I got to try deep fried: oreos, cookie dough, and reese cups. I thought I was going to die. And there were SO MANY MULLETS. And farm animals!

"Dad, will you point at those gourds for me?" "What, THESE gourds?"

Dude, I totally left this off of my culture shock list. When I was at the airport in Newark, NJ, I was standing in some queue for immigration. And there was this white woman standing next to me talking...and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. She looked funny and her voice was weird. And then I realized I was confused because she was a 15-year-old girl. I hadn't seen a western person under the age of 22 for most of a year (excluding the 2 weeks I spent in Germany in January).

Mom got a new car! A BRAND NEW ONE. Her first since she was 19! Don't roll this one in a ditch, Dad! HEY-O

I spoke at my alma mater to some of the kids in the psych department about teaching in South Korea. Well, mostly I tried to ramble about linguistics because I didn't want to admit that I didn't know what I was doing a lot of the time. I got to the good stuff, though. The kids were terribly silent, but hey, I'm used to that, haha. And SOMEONE in the room asked “have you ever whipped out your love stick?” TOO GOOD. It was fun. And a bit bizarre to be in an old classroom with a bunch of students and a former professor.

LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!

These leaves made me single-tear (v.) a week ago.

It's been great to be home.

To help Noah with his spelling tests.

To watch the Madonna episode of Glee with Tyler. He's SUCH a dapper gent.

To meet Ally's boyfriend (THIS GUY) and get a tour of her university's campus.

I'm also still on a “I never have to see The Cha again” high and I'm getting a steady stream of adorable e-mails from my former students.

And of course, lots of e-mails from my Korean family. With ADORABLE pictures. I'd post some, but it's taking AGES to get my photos to upload and now I'm super mega tired. Might could take a lil nap before I put Noah on the bus at 8am.

The woman on the news right meow has THE WHITEST teeth. I plan to ship some stuff to Korea as soon as I have an address to mail things to. Still Visa paperworking. And I've denigrated into minutiae and misusing SAT vocab words.

The Takehome is: I sure do love my life.

Ok, byeeeeeeee!


p.s. I have seriously gained 15 pounds.