We bought a Christmas tree at Home Depot while waiting for Mom to finish with a client who wanted to buy a lot of carpet. Then we had lunch at Bob Evans.
Now the parents are Magyver-ing a tree stand out of a one gallon bucket, some bricks, and scrap wood; we haven’t had a [...]
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Christmas time is here…
Posted in Pittsburgh, tagged Christmas tree on 10 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
She works hard for the money.
Posted in Pittsburgh, tagged money on 29 November 2007 | 4 Comments »
I walk into the Castro Grocery and ask for batteries.
“What kind do you need?”
“AAA.”
“How many?” he asks and pulls out a cardboard box with batteries of different sizes rolling back and forth inside. I walk the block back home with a single battery. Which has to be so illegal, but I love it that there [...]
Emails from Ji Yeon
Posted in Pittsburgh, 대한민국 South Korea, tagged Jeju-do on 21 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The first:
Hi sara~! I am 지연^^
How was you? I’m fine
I’m so happy now. Because I will go on vacation and my term-end examination was over!!^0^
My parents and my all family are miss you.
we went my cousin’s house.
Because yesterday is the first day of the luner month.
so we had to perform a relifious service for my [...]
Almost finished packing.
Posted in Philly, Pittsburgh on 21 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Don’t you hate it when an interviewer hits you with a question you hadn’t even psychologically prepared to answer?
“What book would you recommend that I read?”
“Fiction or nonfiction?”
“Well, you’ve known me for 19 minutes now.”
“Can I have a moment?”
Should have been an easy question, if it weren’t for the fact that I suddenly knew [...]
@!$@-.-#
Posted in Pittsburgh, at home, news on 18 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I should not watch CNN in the morning. It is too early an hour to want to maim my parents expensive plasma mini-TV.
First a show called “This American Morning:”
“Well that was the morning “Moment of Zen” from the Daily Show.”
“That wasn’t funny. Why was that funny?”
And then on to Lindsay Lohan’s [...]
Kimchi!
Posted in Pittsburgh, at home, 대한민국 South Korea on 18 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And at my dental cleaning, the hygienist actually scrawls “study in Korea” in the top margin of my medical history form, says “Do you like my Korean calendar?” A family friend, one Cornelius Chang, commissions a Korean impressionist painter to put out a church calendar. “They’re not always the same,” she’s explaining as she gets [...]
Unexpected call from Korea
Posted in Pittsburgh, at home, 대한민국 South Korea on 18 July 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Someone calls the house late while I am clearing my floor so that some dude can measure for new carpet in the morning. We wonder who it could be. Mom comes up the stairs: “All I understood was ‘Se-ra? Se-ra?’”
It’s Ji Yeon. She won’t tell me how her final exams went [...]
Just home and already packing again.
Posted in Pittsburgh on 13 July 2007 | 1 Comment »
Mom sets herself to making the next pot of coffee.
“You’re not making decalf.”
“Half.”
I pout.
“It’s so late in the day!”
“It’s 9am!”
“2 scoops regular, 1 scoop decalf.”
First step in preparing for the move to Philadelphia is weeding the bookshelf. This requires, really, high octane coffee to fend off the jet lag and the urge to be unconscious [...]
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