I’m having some upload problems with pictures right now. I can upload but it’s hard to see which picture it is due to some thumbnail issues.

I’m just gritting my teeth and trying to get through these last days of work right now.
In brief, I have no good will towards Mr. S left at all, due to how he handled me taking a sick day last week. He was very rude to me on the phone when we talked, and was so bold as to call my doctor’s office about the doctors note I went and got (but didn’t need to get according to my contract) and grill them about my symptoms in front of the entire teacher room. It’s hard to even muster up enough energy to be as indignant as I should be about my school telling me “from now on you should tell us three days before you are sick”. Which lacks any logic whatsoever, is discriminatory (no one else has to do such a thing), and is most certainly not “a cultural difference” as was asserted.

Neither do I have any patience left for my English department.

At any rate. I haven’t been blogging because I didn’t want to type out a full scale rant. I don’t think it’s worth the time or energy. Otherwise I’m fine.

I had a really great weekend. I spent time with one of my favorite students Saturday, I managed to get my house clean in time for her visit. We ate pizza and chatted. We played with the hamsters, and she liked them so much that she got the okay from her family to adopt them. So the hamsters have a home now, which is a big relief for me.

I hung out with Dan and and another good friend on Sunday at the Aa Design Museum in Hongdae. Neat place. Then we went for Izakaya, drank sake, enjoyed each other’s company and finished with lemon and chocolate meringue pies from Tartine. Aside from the soundtrack at the Izakaya, a perfect evening.

Tuesday I said goodbye to Joyce who I’ll see when I go back to the states. Otherwise I’ve not been doing a lot at home. I have tons of stuff to do, but I’ve been so irritated that I’ve been reading books, watching TV and playing the DS in an attempt to destress. Which hasn’t really destressed me so much as just allowed me to zone out. Fail.

I’d like to be planning what I want to get done in my time left in Korea, and my SE Asia trip, but it’s been hard to concentrate on that in my down time at work, and I haven’t been very successful at home either.

Ah well. It’s almost the weekend again. Today is a new day.