January 2012
72 posts
Busan: “I’m gonna make a six pack. Just give me six months.“
INP: “Yeah, yeah. I heard you the first time.”
[A while later.]
Busan: [Chomping on a McDonald’s Mega Mac.]
INP: “What’s that?“
Busan: “What?”
INP: “All that. Stacked up on the shelves beside the books.”
Busan: “Oh. Chocopies.”
INP: “Why are...
December 2011
147 posts
INP: You know I don't like really big muscles.
Busan: But if I have that you'd like it.
INP: No. I like you.
Busan: I mean more.
INP: If you had that, I'd like that. If you don't have that, I like it. I just like you.
Busan: But I like more when you in sexy clothes.
INP: Thank you. I really appreciate that response to what I said.
INP: And Grace has a date tomorrow with a guy who has bigger muscles than you.
Busan: I'll register gym.
INP: He works at a gym.
Busan: Humiliate.
My students have gone Kakaotalk mad. The first little group started messaging me a couple of weeks ago, and word has spread amongst the third graders (who I haven’t even taught since July). I’ve made a teacher Facebook account. We are going to attempt to redirect. I’m not optimistic.
In other news, finding an outfit that is suitable for both a 1 pm anniversary date in Sinsa...
scwlove replied to your quote: Wait… no…. STOP. If he and I start dating, we’re…
do you count the date you met or the date you became official? i get so confused by all these different dates!
Haha Busan and I do because we don’t know what other date to start from. We weren’t very good at becoming “official” and there was no real confession. He just started calling...
“Wait… no…. STOP. If he and I start dating, we’re going to have...”
– Best New Year’s ever.
PROTEIN POWDER WORKS AT A GYM. THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
This has to work out so that my boyfriend won’t be the group’s meathead anymore.
coffeejusayo replied to your photo: Not sure about this
hedgehogs or baby dragons??
Hahahahaha. Grace. I’ll let you take this one.
Dating in Korea: Date on Saturday. It's been a... →
datinginkorea:
Back to my roots, I guess.
He seems nice enough. Makes me laugh. Makes INP laugh. We met on my phone and while he’s not at all my normal type for guys, he’s doing something right.
He’s proactive. Within two nights of chatting he’s asked me out on a date. INP gave him her seal of approval when,…
I just want to point out that she’s blogging on my laptop while...
HT just explained debit cards to me.
You dumb old hag. I know what a debit card is. I just said that I don’t have one.
Time for vacation. For real.
Yeah. I’m getting all geared up to take on this fucking stupid “Korean men beat their women folk” crap that’s come back around in new forms and is popping its half baked theoretical head up everywhere recently. Because. Really. I have some shit to say. In the meantime, DIK should be waking up any time now to start making her way out to my hood to meet me for a...
Anonymous asked: hi INP, I dont have a particular opinion since I'm not very informed in the world of the sexes (wrt division of the sexes and why etc etc blah blah). So here's a video. And whaddya think? vp8tToFv-bA That's the youtube link thing.. won't let me paste the full link.
wilnainkorea replied to your post: Looks like today’s theme is going to be,”Unless…
SO HAPPY U PUT UP THIS LINK! WOOT WOOT!!
Couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I’ve loved him since before I gave a good shit what art even was. And I never had the chance to see one of his shows in NYC, let alone my hometown. So. Pretty excited.
Looks like today’s theme is going to be,”Unless you want to die on the last day before your vacation, put your monkey butt in the chair and keep it there.” Two more, God help me.
What happened on Christmas and why Busan is in the...
Basically, on Christmas morning, Busan, who had gotten a full 11 hours of sleep, woke me, who had gotten a scant four hours, up and insisted that we had to get going for our full day Christmas date. Then, once we got to the coffee shop across the street from our bus stop, which I negotiated on account of the whole me not getting to sleep in thing, he just wanted to stay there. And then our...
hot yellow fellows: golden-notebook:... →
golden-notebook:
hotyellowfellows:
“Guys from Busan are not friendly with their women.”
—
Bacon
Hahahaha. And now he‘s spouting off about how they think Seoul men are girly. Appropriate for conversations going around right now.
(via hotyellowfellows)
I have no idea what this…
According to Bacon: “They’re not up front with their emotions. They don’t say ‘I love you’ as freely as...
“Guys from Busan are not friendly with their women.”
– Bacon
Hahahaha. And now he‘s spouting off about how they think Seoul men are girly. Appropriate for conversations going around right now.
(via hotyellowfellows)
I have no idea what this is in regards to.
To be fair, I feel like it’s not so much about friendliness as it is about...
fromnoonawithlove replied to your post: soniassi replied to your post: whatwouldfucktarddo…
서울말 넘넘 이쁘다 ㅠ I spent the whole time I was there last with my heart all in a flutter. No grunting! Soft pronunciation! Lovely sentences that rise at the ends! Give it to me! Give it to me~~~
Not into it at all, no. I’ve had a knack for picking Incheon guys out in a crowd for a long while now...
soniassi replied to your post: whatwouldfucktarddo replied to your photo: This is…
Oh
Haha. There’s a difference between discussing cultural traits and making posts about how “like Korean guys are sooooooooooooo ___________”. There are differences between Korean masculinity and Western masculinity (as well as a load of differences between all of the different kinds of...
whatwouldfucktarddo replied to your photo: This is why I think it’s funny when girls claim…
Girls claim that Korean men are devoid of machismo? I’d only heard that from petty, insecure, boys!
No, no. Hilariously enough (for what it says about how much those men know about women), it’s supposed to be one of the reasons why they’re better.
Poor Burn. You have a lot of catching...
teachacrajy replied to your post: And I’ve finally finished the final video of my…
Please tell me where I can get more of these Carl gems.
He’s not hard to find, for those of you who are Google warriors. You might even encounter some familiar faces along the way.
Feeling a bit sore at Busan at the moment. Should I post the high school photos of him his best friend has been sending me via Kakao as revenge?
Of course you all are going to say yes. Naughty Tumblr.
And I’ve finally finished the final video of my online training course. The parting shot? If your Korean boyfriend or girlfriend doesn’t want to hold your hand, it’s not because they’re rejecting you — they’re just Korean!
Haha. Carl. Is that what they tell you?
Anonymous asked: Next year I'm moving to go teach in Korea. Any advice on how to act/teach? Also how about the dating scene? Thanks!
Last week, I bought this fucking enormous thick red button-down sweater with a hood from Homeplus for 12,000 won as a means of just kind of giving up for the winter at work. It’s officially too cold in that building, as I can see my breath, and I hate wearing my coat indoors because it’s uncomfortable. The sweater stays at work and goes on as soon as my coat comes off, effectively...
“Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of...”
– Albert Camus.
I may or may not get into Christmas later. At the moment, my brain is kind of melted and gobby. From a combination of things. Like, emotion, other emotion, no sleep, stress of planning/executing social gatherings, far too much red wine and champagne for one weekend, and keeping 40 little mutant animal-human hybrids in their seats all day when they know as well as I fucking do that it’s just...
Haha. Never mind. I’ll explain it better later.
It’s the biggest, brightest purple sweater I’ve ever seen.
vivalavu: I'm pretty sure my girlfriend is only... →
kpopsecrets:
I love my girlfriend. She’s great, she lights up my world, and she’s so gorgeous. I want to marry her but lately I feel like all she cares about is that I’m Korean and that I can help translate K-Pop related things for her.
When she found out that I’m going to Seoul to visit…
hidden midden: I is kind, I is smart, I is... →
theafrosistuh:
Small spoiler alert.
Ok.
I have been avoiding watching The Help. One reason being that I didn’t know if I could watch it without having my mind analyze everything that happens in it. Another being that I know Viola Davis’ record in playing characters that white people…
This goes back to what I’ve found to be the most important thing for white people who want to be...
Busan’s working today. And he worked until late last night, as well. And the company he’s working for are one of the biggest mobile device providers in the ROK. Busan has a smart phone manufactured by the other top company. Which means, apparently, starting January first, he either has to buy a new phone or not carry his phone in the office.
I think I kind of hate his new job....
spicyenoughforyou replied to your photo: It’s like my own version of My Drunk Kitchen up in…
What’s your recipe for frosting? I’ve tried a couple different kinds, but I they’ve not been the greatest.
I have a lot of trouble with frosting, because I don’t have a hand mixer. Actually, pure lie. I specifically brought a hand mixer back with me from home, but didn’t listen to Busan...
I give up. I have no idea what to do for Busan for our one year. Why is Christmas the weekend before? I’m only good for one gift idea at a time. And if you decide to respond with some brilliant idea, please do it in the ask box because he’s probably spying.
If I could get through one time ever of telling my boyfriend how something my students did was sweet or funny or cute without him asking if I love them more than him, that would be great. Also, will never not answer, “Yes.” So it’s probably better to just give up.
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via anorable)
From Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression, ed. Kathleen LeBesco and Jana Evans Braziel.
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Comparatively long arms turning all my Korean-bought long sleeves into 3/4 length, you are fucking killing me right now. It’s minus a thousand degrees, and my wrists are cold.
As The Burndog Turns: Tired of... →
burndogturns:
‘Western Men’ slagging off Korean men…and…’Western Women’ slagging off Korean women.
I see too much of the above…and it’s normally just stereotypical bullshit that has no basis in any reality that allows for people to be individuals in spite of their race or national identity.
FYI….Korean men…
That’s what I like to call “Stage 1”.
Stage 2: Korean women...