stagnation subsides

promise.

i am back among the living. i have hardly checked my email in the past month. yes yes. i am a terrible.horrible.no good.very bad human being and for that i will pay but even still, i am in korea so although it's causing minor stress-related hair loss and jittery bouts of frustration to be so far off my already off.kilter correspondence-game, i'm not killing myself over it.
i am, after all
in korea.


the only thing severely deerticking me off is the fact that my thank you notes are floating somewhere above the little, golden knob atop my 2,000₩ class.class.classy Emart globe- in limbo - and yet to be received. both batches. let's face it, the first batch is surely a goner. i left that attempt out to rot when i dropped of my responsibility to sabrina and lori, wonderland's loyal desk ladies.
ah, the desk ladies. ..
i do have faith, however, that the second coming shall indeed make its safe arrival. after the first debacle, it took me a minute or a wee bit month's time to thank you, part deux.

if i don't post a billion blogs, so be it. thankfully, skorea has and continues to tattoo itself onto my brain daily. brain. books. brain to books. bananas. balloons. bavarian cream pie. yuck.

all your journals are getting a beating or will be receiving theirs shortly.
i promise.
they are all fantastic.


here i sit. writing a blurbious puddle of nothing at all just to tell you a simple hello. i'm alive. i'm well. and pictures are coming soon.

seriously, that was all i had planned to write.


while i am here, i may as well report some recent news. and great news at that. .

i lost my wallet.
my glasses.
and my nalgene water bottle (sorry nikki. i love you.)

on three separate occasions,
in descending order.

i had a solid two years with that water bottle. turned out to be a blessing because we were barely apart. it was just nalgene, purell and me for the longest time but the pink, giant floral backdrop had to go sometime i guess. .. we didn't get along too well. the "life is good" inscribed on the bottom" was torturous until i whited out the "good" and replaced it with "insert adjective here." that part i miss.
my dear mcG purchased me a beautiful new blue one my kids eagerly (and a bit aggressively) adorn with stickers daily.


my glasses. i was pissed. i am pissed. not pissed enough to forget most shit is replaceable anyhow. bank card and alien registration included.

it's stuff. stuff is stuff and here i go
again rambambambling.

happy mama's day

happy mama's day.
to my mama.. you probably will not have checked this until after you've received a little delivery from the korean mother's day fairy.

hope you enjoy.
i love you.
more.
;)

so, but, because & and

okey doke. i'm here. and i've been itching and scratching to get a blog posted and thus, to no avail because (and don't air.punch me for this) i have had basically zero time. now, time is relative, yes. so that's a giant heaping bunch of hullabaloo. hullabalogna. baloney. or the reason i make you click "yes" for potentially explicit material aka.
bullshit.

whew.

so. i tell my children as they're so aptly named, never to begin a sentence with the words "so" "but" "because" or "and".. . any writer will tell you this is just plain donkey manure because well, for one, i am an avid "and" sentence- starter. anyone who has studied poetry knows one is surely allowed to begin a sentence with "and" and often, we are the better for it. i guess this is one of the many reasons, or the many exceptions which make our language so very difficult to learn, no less to teach. i suppose it's a good rule to use as it does whittle out so many inane sentences. every once in a while -i think twice thus far- a student has used and or so, respectively, to begin a sentence and i've let it slide because the sentence is just too good to edit. in attaining my creative writing degree, we learned it's mandatory to learn the craft before being able to apply our individual genius to it. perhaps the same can be said for teaching elementary school english to non-native speakers .. the hump is similar.. depending on which angle you look at it from.



up NEXT: the beginning blogs.. notes from my arrival into sKorea.

promise.
pinky swear.
or as they say in korea. yakso.
they touch thumbs after their pinkies are joined.. that's one.

beginner blogger beginning

3.17.08
10:27pm

Ok. so it’s march 17th and i’ve been here since the evening of january 3rd. i’ve been jotting down bits and pieces of bits and bits in anticipation of starting this blog-ish thing. now, i’m not a today the weather was ___. . .i’m feeling ___. . .today i did _____, _____ and blank - type of writer or type of person for that matter. i am organized chaos. i have oh so much to tell and i can not wait till i sit down and just hurl, mentally of course, all over this keyboard. i will begin divulging my thoughts heretofore shortly and from there will post additions sporadically. i am teaching 7 or 8 classes each day from 9am-6:30-ish pm and as such, i am a sleepy little bee.

i have been writing quite a bit and will hopefully leave here with plenty of ideas and notes and scrabbles and scribbles on napkins and post its and coffee filters and ALL of my magnificent new journals (thankyouthankyou kamsa hamneeda) to create something of depth and purpose.

also. my thank you notes shall be arriving shortly. i sent them out about two and a half weeks ago.. i had to get acclimated and such. i am, after all, in asia.
in case you forgot.
i’m in south korea.

love.
love.
miss.