February 2012
43 posts
alectointhunderland asked: A lot of racist people? I don't know, Lenny Kravitz is HOT *fans self*
Just another expat girl in Taiwan: Actual,... →
raptorific:
These are, for the sake of space, paraphrased versions of the original arguments that I’ve seen floating around the internet, and some have been reworded to make them clearer. Included is my own commentary on why exactly each is racist, although most of them don’t need much…
Obviously a lot of great points, which should also be obvious. And I don’t know anything about...
Anonymous asked: just wanted to say that I have been following this for a while and that I like your blog. I am from Spain, so not always following either your English or your cultural references, but it is all anyway very interesting. Specially I really enjoy references to cultural studies-feminist (I am a feminist scientist interested in Korea somehow ;)). well, this is it, I do not not if it is usual to write...
big fat feminist: Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can... →
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “hoe”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion…
girlinseoul replied to your photo: That helps.
i love the crossed out ‘lots’
It’s actually a “too”. Haha.
What I wasn’t expecting: Students from three or four graduating classes ago coming back to see their little brothers graduate. God. Their English is so, so shit. Haha. But they were happy to see that I can understand them in Korean these days. So many photos. I think probably literally hundreds. And you would be shocked how different two brothers can be.
Rough night. Gave up and went to bed before nine. Gonna be a rough day. Graduation plus personal life stupidity plus the opening day of Shark Week all coinciding. Awesome. I’m definitely not going to run my mascara all over my fucking face today or anything. Nope.
Hopefully not a rough entire weekend. I need a break.
I can hear the principal carrying on in the math teachers’ office next door. We live on the fifth floor, so there’s no reason for him to be up here, other than just wandering around being sociable. I’m the only one in the office right now, and we’re probably next. The only logical solution is to turn off the lights and lock the door. Right?
Was completely dreading today, to be honest. By the sheer force of incredible luck, I was due to be teaching the two worst first grade classes during fifth and sixth class — the last two classes of the entire school year.
But. All classes after fourth have been canceled. Which means I have fuck all to do. Running out of excuses to avoid that heathen textbook, I guess. I mean, the heater in...
I don’t know if I’ll leave this post up for long, as it feels somehow weirdly personal, and I don’t have much time to properly dissect what I want to say, as I’m due out the door for work in twenty minutes or so, but….
This morning I woke up from a very strange dream. At first, I was with some kind of tour group in some nondescript pan-European city. We were...
“어느샌가 3년이라는시간이 훌쩍지나가있었다.
1학년입학시절이아직도생생이기억난다.
아직초딩스런장난기어린모습과중학교입학이라는설렘과기대감?,...”
– My student, on Facebook.
The only day out of the year when I’m guaranteed to cry is coming on Friday. Today they stuffed my drawers full with an amount of Valentine’s Day chocolate that far outweighs what I’ve given them over the years, because I told them that in America, we give...
Indivisible: A well-spun story in the December... →
mediafreakgodicon:
A well-spun story in the December 2011 issue of Sun magazine, “First Empty Your Cup” by Andrew Boyd, featured an account of a traveler in Japan. I thought the conversation from the selection below would ring familiar for many folks who have lived and traveled abroad so I am sharing it here.
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"Teacha Crajy?": So the word has come down from on... →
teachacrajy:
So the word has come down from on high that I will be teaching grades 3-6 next semester, 24 classes a week (though a full week rarely ever happens due to cancellations). I am to have 12 co-teachers, that is, two English subject teachers for 5th and 6th grade (one of whom will be my ever-beloved…
I don’t have a co-teacher in the room most of the time, but I also...
Right. New Rule. If I say, “Be quiet!” three times, and you are still not quiet, you will write, “I am very sorry for talking during class, when I should have been playing the game instead,” one hundred times.
I have never had to resort to this kind of fucking bullshit nonsense before, as I am not an elementary school teacher. But then again, I’ve never had to say,...
ladyinwaiting22 replied to your post: I’m really tired. Mondays are always a bit rough,…
where did you print the test from? i want to take a look at it and possibly try it too. i have a book to help study for it so i need to pick that back up. lol! good luck!
Here. Loads and loads of them. Boo hoo.
I’m really tired. Mondays are always a bit rough, because of the study room and the commute back and forth, but the first Monday back after a long break is just mind-numbing. The students are being little heathens because, really, why shouldn’t they? Last four days of school, back from one vacation, about to start another…. nothing to study. I told them that I simply cannot take...
sequinedstrawberries asked: I have a quick question. I was just asked to bring in my Visa records of my personal spending for my school?? How is that their business? I only have my Canadian Visa so I could access the online statement but isn't that my personal information?
Jazzy opening music on all language learning CDs ever: completely over it. Completely. You do not need thirty seconds of musical intro on a two minute listening exercise. What a waste of time alive on this earth.
Stuff and things behind the cut. Bleck.
So. I’m just going to have to get used to it, that part of dating a Korean man in Korea who is sometimes contracted with very large, very successful, very demanding corporations, is dealing with a 야근 schedule. Which means sometimes getting cancelled on with little notice. Which means sitting around and waiting sometimes. Which means having plans...
Holy fuck. Hold your horses, alright? I will definitely get to the continuation of the series about gay students sometime this week. I promise.
To @John_F_Power who takes tweets at face value
roboseyo:
OK, John. I can’t do a full length/appropriate response on twitter, because breaking complete thoughts into 140 character bites is like eating salad one ingredient at a time.
To get everyone else up to speed: The Marmot’s hole tweeted about this story: the “crooked dick defense” for rape, whereby a man’s severely lopsided hang demonstrates that he could only have porked with a lot of...
Nobody knows what the fuck is going on today, and the teachers have all just been summoned to the library for a meeting. Probably to try to decide what the fuck is going on today. Class starts in twenty minutes, allegedly. Welcome back! TGI fucking F, already.
Anonymous asked: You have a rabbit?!? Will you post some adorable bunny pictures? What is the tale behind this little pet?
Was lying in bed fully prepared to get a proper’s night’s rest before the start back to school tomorrow, mildly berating Busan by Kakao about the video of him squealing like a little baby while attempting to feed my rabbit… in his underwear, which he allegedly didn’t delete off my phone, even though it’s now gone, when I heard a terrifyingly familiar drip drip drip...
Clearing something up: 28 = 15 cont. →
I like this blog. →
Anonymous asked: you're dating a man? i thought you were dating a princess!
Oh my god. Fuck this cold. Busan’s advice was just to not go outside, and I think I’m going to take it, beyond running to the mart at the bottom of the hill to pick up supplies for chili, which is the only food anyone should be eating today. Also Busan’s weirdo BFF is sending me all kinds of weird messages, including sound clips of him singing Ne-Yo’s “So Sick”...
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A friend who recently moved back to the US from...
Okay. As per usual, when I get these questions, I have a lot of questions in return.
Like, first of all, why do you need to figure out Korean men? I’m assuming you live in the US. Are you planning to move to Korea? Bottom line, people who need to “figure out” other races without living within a culture dominated by that race, especially when it comes to dating, skeeve me. ...
Fucking hell. My final batch of cupcakes just rose all to hell. Just as I was slipping the very first buttercream frosting I’ve ever made that I’ve been satisfied with into the fridge, feeling smug, I looked over to see a chocolate fucking massacre in my oven. I’ve never in my life seen a set of cupcakes do that before. I filled the cups just slightly above half way, because...
Tumblr is being a jerk today. And I was all prepared to post a photo of my unshowered, makeupless, pajama-clad self in midday sunlight, in ceremony of the next to last day of vacation. Let’s see if I can post from my phone. Instead, a list of things in bag packed for Busan: hand-knit dark grey ribbed scarf, blackberry muffins, chocolate cupcakes and an electric kettle that was on sale. And I have...
January 2012
72 posts
Look at the level of whiney whiney baby cry out of... →
They’d never cut it as women, if they got that hysterical every time someone tried to tell them rape was their responsibility. They’d just implode into a puddle of pitiful little baby tears by the time they turned fifteen.
Anonymous asked: ...I'm not a troll. Did I say something wrong?
peaceshannon replied to your post: What happened to fromnoonawith love? Also I read a bit of your blog and mistook you for a gay guy. You write like a man, nice stories
극찬인거 같은데요 ㅎㅎ
Yeah, but HYF and I were discussing this over coffee today — about how I was constantly mistaken for a man in the early blogging days, and even still am, although I think my blog content makes it pretty clear...
Anonymous asked: What happened to fromnoonawith love? Also I read a bit of your blog and mistook you for a gay guy. You write like a man, nice stories
