21 January 2011
Yogurt
Eunjoo throws a plate of fruit at me. It's all diced up, so it doesn't hurt, but her meaning is clear. She is angry. Or I'm not getting enough fibre. Or I&
18 January 2011
I Skype my Mom
Mom: Hi Marky. Me: Hi Mom. Sorry we missed Christmas. Mom: Oh don't worry about it. It was a wash anyways. Me: Sorry to hear it. Mom: A wash is good Marky. Me: Oh. Then congratulations.
14 January 2011
A lesson
I'm waiting at the meeting tree to meet Professor Kim for lunch. I got there at 11:54 for a 12:00 appointment. At 12:06 he has not yet come. I keep looking at my
12 January 2011
The key...
I tell my wife about the spy I met at the Starbucks in Seoul. It doesn't seem to surprise her. She tells me to "Ignore him, it is nothing." I show her the key
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05 January 2011
Evil Mark
I'm in my office fighting with the notation on a paper I'm writing. Portrayed on television, Math is: Furiously writing long equations on a whiteboard. Then pausing and look thoughtfully at an integral. Then
01 January 2011
Tokk tokk
Happy New Year. Before we go up to Seoul for the new year, we have breakfast in the cafeteria at the train station. We have tokk soup. Tokk is mushy rice balls. Like the Japanese mochi. We eat
28 December 2010
Same same
It's cold. I'm in the cafeteria with Lucy and everyone has on the same puffy black snow jacket. Everyone. Everyone but us. It is a parade of black Michelin Men filling their trays with
26 December 2010
No Kimchi
The North Korean Cow attack I talked of a couple of days ago never materialized. It must have been some sort of dairy farm explosion. I'm sorry if I scared anyone. The North Koreans have now