Desk-warming

The first day of desk warming was pretty great... no classes to teach, no crazy students to control, no lesson planning. The second day, the novelty was beginning to wear off around 9:10am. I am now rounding the third straight week of no classes to teach and I have yet to find a solution to my boredom... I have however managed to waste hours and hours on the following websites:
- facebook (duh, I seriously hate/love this thing. Why do my news feeds consist of the same 15 people, and why are they all boring?)
- lamebook (terrible and terribly funny at the same time)
- google reader (the ten blogs that I subscribe to... these people cannot post fast enough to keep me entertained)
- various news sites (the guardian, the new york times, sometimes the onion)
- pitchfork (kinda lame since apple bought out lala and you can't listen to things for free)
- Maangchi's youtube videos (Korean cooking with a wacky Korean lady - with bad music in the background)
- facebook (again, yah.......)
- craigslist Seattle (rents really haven't gone down have they?)

Despite what you might think, it has occured to me to do something productive. I do sometimes take an occasional break from my computer staring, sigh-enducing stupor. Sometimes I play badminton with my elementary school students, or clean up my desk, or walk to the cafeteria to eat lunch. And luckily I am still doing yoga three times a week, otherwise I would really feel like a fat slob.

So, if you have any entertainment suggestions for the rest of my summer of desk warming, I owe you a facebook "like".

Question

"Hey what's the first thing you'll do when you get back?" Number one question people ask me when I tell them I'm going back to the land of whole foods, real coffee, and expensive cab rides.

Number one answer:

"Eat me some Taco Bell!"

It sounds a little understated, since it's not really "Mexican" food, but nothing beats a perfectly-crisp-subsititue-the-beans-for-meat- Crunchwrap-Supreme-plus-a-large-baja-blast. I'm pretty sure I dream about this delish snack.

I love you, Taco Bell!

습기

I'm not sure of the exact analogy I would use to describe the affect of Korean monsoon humidity on me. But if I had to choose, I feel like a used-leftover-towelette-left-in-a-hot-car-parked-in-the-walmart-supercenter-parking-lot.

There's something really special about the weather here that manages to make me feel like I'm sweating ALL day. My walk to work leaves me dabbing a sweat-soaked kleenex to my already melted face and wishing there was a shower in my school.

Despite the humidity, we have had some epic thundershowers that put the rainy city of Seattle to shame. 6 straight hours of thunder, lightening, rain, and car alarms being set off by the storm - impressive.