If you haven’t been following the Disunion series at nytimes.com, you should be. It is the best thing I’ve read in a long time. Disunion is a serialized set of articles starting with the election of 1860 and following through on an almost daily basis of what happened 150 years ago in the lead up [...]
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Yesterday I wrote about the top 10 posts of 2010. To be honest, they weren’t my favorites. I liked a few of them… and some of them I was amazed got read at all. So, here are 5 of my favorite posts that I think should be in the top 10. I loved these posts. [...]
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With my blog, I am obsessed with the data and stats about the visitors. I check it multiple times a day. I try to look at each post and figure out from the data what worked for one and didn’t work for another. I love knowing that this December I got 724% more visitors and [...]
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A few weeks ago I posted about my happiness chart and how I grade myself each week on certain categories. They are fairly basic things… being healthy, reading, sleeping, being social, etc. I’ve been thinking about adding some new categories, particularly about close friends and family. Right now, I only have one category that involves [...]
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A few days ago I was with some friends while a TV was on in the background. Midway through some Christian telling me how Howard Zinn couldn’t possibly be a Christian (I assume due to his anti-war, anti-poverty, and anti-slavery positions), I was given the opportunity to completely tune the guy out (allowing him, the [...]
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By chance (i.e., human error) I was able to go back to the moonlight tour of Changdeokgoong (Changdeok Palace) with a couple of friends. Changdeokgoong was one of the main palaces of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897). It was completed in 1412, and while only 30% of the original palace remains, it is still a sight [...]
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31 is my favorite number. And 31 is the birthday I’ve been waiting for for years. Last year I wrote how excited I was to turn 30, and that was true… I couldn’t wait to be liberated from the terrible twenties. But the big one for me is 31. This last year has been very [...]
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When I first moved to Korea over a year ago, I did not understand all the cuteness. Now, after succumbing to Oh! and Balloons (quite possibly the cutest thing ever) and countless other cute things, I think it’s time I fully embraced my love of Korean cuteness. I love Girls Generation‘s new video, Hoot. It bothered [...]
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I had the rare opportunity to visit Changdeok Palace at night. The Palace is normally closed at night as it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has limited electricity. It was one of the best things I’ve done since moving to Korea. It was incredible. They only allowed 100 people in this tour, and [...]
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Can’t Nobody is my new favorite Kpop song. I got the 2NE1 CD a few weeks ago (along with a poster and school folder!), but am just now really listening to it. I love it… it’s fun, it’s catchy… and it’s much more interesting than most girl groups in Korea.
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I bought a regular size bike last month, but it was stolen after 4 days… I took this as a sign from the universe that I was not meant to have a big sturdy manly bike, and that instead I should buy one of the metro-sexual Asian mini velo’s (to go with my man-purse). So… [...]
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A few years ago I was volunteering for a mayoral candidate in Hartford in hopes that he would defeat the now imprisoned Eddie Perez. A friend and I asked him what his plan was to get people downtown. His answer was “street theater.” We both kind of stood there with our mouths gaping because all [...]
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UPDATE: Because I am idiot, I just realized that these are NOT cucumbers… they are zucchinis. One reason I love Korea is that they have somehow managed to make me love (make me love so much that I buy them now) my most hated and despised vegetable… the cucumber. But, it’s not just the cucumber, [...]
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Last year I read several blog posts about Naksan Temple, or Naksansa/낙산사 (wikipedia), and I really wanted to visit. It is one of the few temples that are on the coast (as most are on top of mountains). But, living in Andong and getting out of work at 11pm really prevented me from traveling too [...]
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I got a buckwheat pillow. I didn’t exactly mean to… I was walking down the street and a man was making them from his truck. I needed a new pillow and had heard about their health benefits… so I bought one. I love it. It only cost me $14 (after asking for a discount, which [...]
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This has to be the best Kpop song to come out in a long while. It’s a new girl group, so I didn’t (initially) have high hopes… but, I’m obsessed. Earlier this week I was listening to the song on YouTube and an elementary student saw part of the video where the girls slap their [...]
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My new favorite song is DJ Doc’s I’m This Kind of Person. I especially love that they make fun of other Kpop idol groups… and I especially especially love that they make fun of the boy bands who fake-play instruments while doing silly dance moves. ==
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When I first saw this video by DBSK (동방신기) I was mortified. I didn’t understand the mittens, the headbands, the ties, or the penguin back-up dancers. I still don’t understand it, but after several hundred viewings, I have completely succumbed to their saccharin smiles and cheesy dance moves. Similar to a Picasso or Liza Minelli [...]
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Math and science were always my best subjects… which is why I majored in English and minored in Business Administration. Once I decided on my major I didn’t really see the need for my other core classes. When I had to pick a lab science I chose geology because it was supposed to be the [...]
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