My Bananas are Breeding Fruit Flies

I truly dislike Itaewon. I feel dirty and when I am there I feel typical, like nobody wonders what I am doing there. When I walk down the street and see another foreigner, there is no feeling of camaraderie because everybody there is a foreigner; there are more foreigners than Korean people in the area.

On Sunday, Sally and I went down to Itaewon to check out a English only used book store. At Rubber Seoul, we bought discount cards as part of the fundraiser (and a cute guy was selling them). The card is called Around Seoul, but the only places you can actually gets discounts are in Itaewon. Anyway, at this bookstore we get a 10% discount with the card. At least we would have if we had remembered to use them. I honestly wanted to just see what kind of selection they have, for reals. And in typically used bookstore style, there was a lot of John Grisham and Dan Brown but I did manage to find four titles there were to my liking. There would have been more, but I actually managed to put one back on the shelf, lets be proud of the small things.

On the way to Itaewon, Sally and I were waiting in the subway station between transfers and as the subway slowly came to a stop, we saw friends of ours in the car. It is so random that in this huge city we not only got on the same subway as people we know, but we actually stepped onto the same car. It actually blows my mind and this is the second time it has happened and this time we were not even going to the same place. So random!

And at the bookstore, Sally ran into someone she knew. Of course we were in Itaewon were all foreign people go at an English bookstore, so it was considerably less random, but still a little freaky.

Sally gave me bookshelf for Christmas. It is already full. I had to rearrange things so that I could fit more books onto it. I was little disappointed at the bookstore when I found out they do trade in’s only. They don’t give cash for books. It might be ok for when I am here, but it won’t help when I want to get my books home or get cash for them.

I hate Itaewon. It’s even uglier than the rest of Seoul. It’s stupid. Also stupid is that Word underlines uglier in green because it is a non-standard usage. Non-standard doesn’t mean wrong, it means non-standard as in not the normal use. Leave me along grammar check and stick to telling me when I have repeated a word or when I have used two spaces between words. Don’t fucking bother me about non-standard usages, damn it.

Will we refer to the year 2010 as two thousand ten or twenty-ten? This is a problem that I faced with my students the other day. We do say nineteen ten (1910) or eleven thirty-two (1132), but we say two thousand nine (2009), we don’t we say twenty oh nine? I am confused would appreciate any insight that my faithful readers have to offer.

I’m sorry this blog post sucks so much. This new work schedule is really messing me up.

Oh yeah, I'm so over Jaemin, he's brat now that there are kids for whom he can show off. I miss things how they were. I will be relived when February rolls around and we are done this intensive schedule.

Dee