Slow Times at Guri High

I returned from Southeast Asia on Feburary 6th. It's March 4th now - and today (Friday) is the final day of my 4th week back at school.

Here, in as complete of a list as my memory will allow, is the nothingness accrued in these 4 weeks (during school hours).


- taught 6 classes (over the span of three days)

- watched Senior Graduation, Goodbye Ceremony for leaving teachers, Welcoming Ceremony for new teachers

- moved offices (from center first floor to the new wing on the 3rd floor; like going from first row first base side above the dugout to $4 bleacher seats in left field)

- gotten sick, faked sick, taken naps, woken up with drool on my face

- written something like 45,00 words (seriously) in the form of stories, blogposts, tumblr posts, emails and letters

- read: the 1926 Letters of Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsetayeava and Rainer Maria Rilke, Lorrie Moore Birds in America, Studs' Terkel's Working, Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn, a few dozen poets and a few hundred online blogs of various components, the BBC and New York Times daily, and anything anyone posts remotely interesting on Reddit.

oh, and damn near a dozen of Charlie Sheen interview transcripts

- watched: movies: A Single Man, The Visitor, The King's Speech, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Louis C.K's Hilarious, In The Loop; documentaries on, Westboro Baptist Church, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce....and more

tv shows: Portlandia (all 6 episodes), Bob's Burgers (all 5 episodes), all current episodes of How I Met Your Mother, The Office, 30 rock, The Big Bang Theory, Archer, Modern Family, Californication....and more


- eaten: loads of bibimbop and donkatsu - the two easiest things for koreans to order me....and since for 3 of these 4 weeks we had no students we have ordered in lunch everyday.






classes start tomorrow. this has to be the single most boring blog post you've ever read - if indeed you did read it all.

i'm sorry - but content equals sentiment, and I'm losing my mind with all this internet-ing.


a quotation:

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
— Isaac Asimov

(which is non-coincidentally how I've been feeling about america lately)



next: pictures from the various teacher dinner's I've gone on lately, those will be good. much better than this, yes, much better.


-e.g.