Vector of Disease

I went to a clinic all by my lonesome to get drugs for what I, with my vast medical expertise, have diagnosed as a sinus infection. Getting treatment in Korea is very different from America.

Pros:
No wait: There's clinics everywhere and you don't have to have an appointment, you just walk in.
Cheap: It was $11 to answer a few questions, be exposed to further infectious agents, and get a prescription. The prescription came to $31.
Easy drug access: Seriously, the doc and I discussed phlegm color and pain and almost instantly I had a 'scrip' for antibiotics and several other unidentified pills.

Cons:
Easy drug access: Do I really need 5 pills for sinus pain, coughing and phlegm?
Unsanitary: The doc used a metal tongue depressor to check my throat and tossed it right back into the cup of them on his desk.
Language barrier: This is a pretty serious risk. Granted, I can drag someone from the office with me to act as translator but I already had one mortifying experience with that and let's just say I never want to discuss specifics of lady parts in front of a coworker (again).

I'm looking forward to feeling all kinds of better soon and not sounding like a smoker.

Laptop Endangerment Exercise

I compiled the finest moments of my various sickly attempts at celebrating birthdays. I'll post cultural event pictures etc. when my energy isn't being sapped by disease. Right now I'm in a mood to wander some moors in a ridiculous dress and cry out the names of lost lovers NyQuil products. And chase sheep. Or at least throw dirty tissues and empty Advil containers at them.

May Babies!

I know a lot of people with birthdays in May!

I tried to make a video but both attempts were subpar. I caught a bug that makes me sound and feel like I smoked a pack of cigarettes right before bed.

Mountain View

This is what I spent Children's Day making.

Weekend Neatness

I love wysteria.




There was a reenactment of the wedding of King Sejeong (inventor of everything). A member of our party stopped him for photos and then a plague of us descended on these poor reenactors.


This tree and thousands of lanterns are all on the grounds of the Jogyesa Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in Seoul.


I made a lantern at one of the HiSeoul festival events. It's incomplete because we got there late but I'm pleased with it.

Shittin' Rainbows

Some things that have made me smile (or smirk) lately:

Read a Book
This raises a lot of questions about whether or not certain racial stereotypes are being reinforced with negative consequences. I think that it could go either way but, for me, it's less about race and far more about the hilarity of combining obscenities with good advice.

Flight of the Conchords
A New Zealand folk parody band. Yea, I know, I usually hate music related comedy but these guys are pretty entertaining. Plus...they're Kiwi. It's all good, though, since it's one of those things white people like.

Spam, Egg, Spam & Spam

24 tickets to Crazy Tasty Town (tm) for less than a dollar per ticket!

One of my students wrote (in Korean) on a shelf at school that I am crazy and stupid and have low IQ. I have a good idea of which class it was but I'm not sure which student (high likelihood that it's our arsonist). The more sensitive part of me is hurt for abstract hypersensitive reasons and part of me wants to put the smackdown on whoever wrote it (largely because I work so hard and I really hate graffiti in the school) but most of me knew that this was coming because I remember being an obnoxious teen and I just hope the turdlets grow out of it. I took a note on the graffiti and the students asked who wrote it and I told them I didn't know but that it was a bit repetitive, that the hallmark of good writing is variety and whoever wrote it should work on expanding their vocabulary.