I went to bed at 9pm last night. That was awesome, until about 9:30 when someone from the gas company kept ringing my door bell. I was in a half stupor so I was about to just open the door in my underwear, so I did that. Of course, it was a woman at the door. I think she was checking for a gas leak, but I was being a total bitch to her. I was pretending I didn't understand any of the Korean she kept speaking to me.

On Friday, we saw Korea at its worst. It was probably around 4am and we just hanging out at a restaurant, basically waiting for the subway to reopen. A couple minutes after we sat down, this couple starts screaming, the guy takes off, leaves the girl at the table. Alright, the end of that. No so much. Now what happened next, I don't care what your culture is, but this behavior isn't acceptable anywhere. Period. The guy came back a few minutes later, yanks the girl out of the booth, she slams her head onto the side of the wall. I remember yelling "f--- you" at the guy over and over again as he was walking out the front door. I've never been in a fight before, but if that guy had turned around, it was on. There was something so repulsive about seeing something like that and more so, the muted reactions from the other Koreans in the place. One huge Korean guy nodded at me and smiled after it all ended. It was small consolation. I'm sorry, something like that would never happen in America. That guy wouldn't have made it out that front door.

I spoke to the school director yesterday and told her I wasn't pleased with the current work schedule, namely me teaching a lot more than John Mark Karr. She made the strong point that my contract states that I teach 30 classes a week and I'm currently at 29. But it's not about the contract, it's about the blatant unfairness of the current situation. And she understood this, apologized profusely and assured me that she is "considering doing something" about John Mark. The point obviously being that old man perv monster may be shipping out of Korea in the near future.

Haven't done much lately, but I'm content with that through the winter. Every time I think maybe I should go outside and do something, the natural human instinct to want to remain warm and in front of the TV takes hold of me. Next month I should get to Japan, followed by a trip to North Korea in March, that should be enough to hold me over until the spring arrives. Until then, I have sooo many old TV shows to watch online.