My future roommate:

Little bunny in the big city!

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Eventually it will stop being news…

“It’s nonsense that Seung was a loner,” Kim Gyeong-won, a 23-year-old senior at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, said yesterday as he talked about his childhood friend Cho Seung-hui.
from the JoongAng Daily.
And the inconvenience of both Korean-English transliterations and the commonness of Korean surnames:
As soon as the name of the shooter at Virginia Tech University [...]

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Korea Herald article

This article pretty much runs the gamut of sentiments on the subject of the day, except for what I’m told some people have been hearing –that he did it because he was more American than Korean.
U.S. shooting prompts concerns of racial backlash
“As a Korean, I feel the need to apologize to the victims and family [...]

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In the afternoon.

Apparently I was so much wronger than I suspected yesterday that I might be. From Metropolitician:
Then there’s the interesting fact that the record holder for the worst shooting in world history, Woo Bom-gon (우범근), is also Korean, this time a Korean national who lived in Korea. That’s not in the least bit interesting? From [...]

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In the morning.

With the release of that kid’s name, Virginia is the subject of gyomushil gossip:  “Hanguk saram!”  Mrs. Choi pulled up his picture, “Face of a kill-eoh,” though I want to say that his expression looks like the yearbook photos of our entire staff.  You people don’t smile in pictures.
“I don’t know what I should say [...]

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Why the hell?

[Edit]
So apparently I have to void that entry.

They say it was a Korean guy who did the shootings, so you have to take back what you said.  Korean TV news said so.  He went to “study abroad” when he was in 2nd grade.  Which, to me, looks suspiciously like “move”.  US news confirmed Asian student.  [...]

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And so it goes.

RIP, Kilgore Trout.
When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
-Kurt Vonnegut

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Courtesy my dad

The Degus cam.  Who wants a peanut?

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Early morning pensiveness

I don’t like the question ‘So how’s Korea?’
After this post we will return to the usual schedule of amusing anecdotes devoid of serious introspection. Although they will be less frequent as I am homeless, basically, during vacation. My time stateside is dwindling. I get antsier the closer it gets to 4am [...]

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Happy Black Friday

For whatever reason, you have to eat when you drink soju.  Any time the host father is around early in the evening, we drink soju, either with dinner or with some kind of food made specifically so that we can drink soju after dinner.  Last night we drank soju over the second of the applie [...]

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Who will volunteer to read it?

I wrote a story.  Good for me, question is: is it good writing or only good catharsis?

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Don’t let the door hit you

She’s crying because she might have to go back to the Pittsburgh public schools. Being registered at my parents house, I had the distinct pleasure of getting to vote against Santorum *and* Melissa Hart. Peace out, as sonsengnim would say. That being possibly his favorite slang that I have used this [...]

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Speaking their language would only help so much.

As I’m thinking about things that I can have my kids read, that I think they should be able to understand because they should know the vocabulary therein, I’m remembering this great little boy who was in my elementary class when I did America Reads.  We were doing reading comprehension on Columbus’ voyage, I think.  [...]

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But now am found

I remember reading some time ago about the City of Pittsburgh losing three large pieces of installation art and the artist’s multiple year search to locate them. I think they were found in storage under a bridge.
So Pittsburgh resembles my closets.
Like a week ago, some maintenance workers happened to find the potty used by [...]

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Oh, internets.

“It’s her role to bring it to the community and see what the community thinks,” he said. “What’s obscene in Mississippi might not be obscene in New York.”
I mean, I guess that’s true but doesn’t it sound weird to say so? And it’s an interesting debate–is it possible for the written word to be [...]

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I knit like I am picking a scab.

It takes me four hours, after several misbegotten gauge polygons, just to cast on the stitches. Every time I count, the number is different. Or, I accidentally knit half of the first row with the tail that I left too long. I change patterns and then change my mind back. I [...]

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[2nd update]

It’s important to stay abreast of the news at home.
[2nd update]: Crack puppy OK, under veterinary care.
Re:  Duquesne basketball players, hadn’t gotten to Monday yet.
[Updated, since it's now Sunday in Pittsburgh]
Officers who stopped a car at a DUI checkpoint around 2 a.m. yesterday arrested its driver for attempting to hide crack cocaine by feeding it to a [...]

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same same

Mom called on the occasion of having the stomach tube taken out. I told her how they only have me teaching seven hours a week while I’m at school seven hours a day. So by the time I get home, I’ve read everything on the internet and then what do I do?
It’s been [...]

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