Honestly, now.

I just thought this was mildly amusing……………………………..

The other night, I went to a bar with Mary and a bunch of the TA’s from her campus (Koreans).  After talking a while, the guys decided to play “baskin robbins 31.”  In this game, you count to thirty one.  The stratagy of the game come in in the fact that you can either only count one number or you can choose two or three.  Here’s an example.

Person A:  One, two, three

Person B: Four

Person C: Five, six, seven

Person D: eight, nine

….etc. until you hit thirty one.  Whoever hits 31 has to drink.  So around 20, people start paying attention.  Unless you’re me.  Then you have to pay attention ALL THE TIME because everyone else is counting in Korean.

So the theme of this weekend was……………….fish!

On Friday night, Daniel (Korean coworker) and I went fishing.  It was not unlike fishing in the creek when I was little.  The fish were little, but it was still fun.  However, I guess it was illegal.  Daniel suggested that we try the Tan Cheon.  However, I vetoed that idea when I found how much the fine was if we were caught (5 million Korean won=5 thousand dollars).   The nicest thing about the evening was how quiet it was near the water (some random pond in Yongin, about 25 minutes away from my apartment).

On Sunday, Mike, Drew and I went to the Aquarium at the Coex Mall.  Mary came along for the ride, but she’d already seen the aquarium.  She hung out for a while and then skipped out to her aunt’s house.  Anyways, I’ll let the pictures tell the story. 

So on Saturday, we (being some of the people from the Korean class and a few extra) took a field trip to the island of Namisam.  (Sorry, I’m not sure on the spelling.)  It was fun.

Except that we had to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get there.  On Friday night, I went out to the movies.  The movie finished up and I got home to Migeum at around 1:30am.  Ummmm…….only three hours of sleep?  At a certain point, it just makes more sense to not risk sleeping in and just stay up all night.  So after a conversation over beer and chicken, it was time to get a packin’.    Oh, ouch.

Interestingly enough, it was Mary who crashed on the train.  After a two hour train ride, we were all ready for a day of be-bopping around and water-sports.  I didn’t end up water-skiing, but I did go tubing.

We (Scarlet, Carina, Rachel and I) also rented a four-person bike and peddled around for awhile.  Some of the guys also rented a four-seater and then tried to run us off the road.  They passed us and promptly fell over.

We ended up leaving fairly early (I made it home at around 7:30ish.) and crashed.

I must say that one of my favorite feelings is the exhaustion after a hard day of playing. 

Photo of the day are here.

After some interesting conversations at work concerning people from the past coming out of the woodwork and mucking up the present, a coworker brought up an interesting idea.  Is all this contact really a good thing?  Can we even handle it (psychologically speaking)?

With sites that promote contact between people (myspace, facebook, etc.) are we missing out on letting go?  I think there are some parts of our lives that we want, and possibly need, to put behind us.  However, when you have someone that you were friends with in elementary school tracking you down and befriending you via the internet, it makes this difficult.  On one hand, the childhood friendship had value.  On the other hand, well, there’s a reason you’re not friends anymore.

It also leads to breakups being a whole lot less broken.  And not in a good way.  With breakups in the real world, it tends to be fairly straightforward.  Avoid.  Until time gets around to fixing it, avoiding is the way to go.  But even then we still all have the impulse to see what out ex is up to.  We can’t leave well enough alone.  In the past, there was some pretty decent incentive to leave it alone.  Finding out information required either A) asking someone-which has it’s own set of humiliations, or B) stalking-which has it’s own set of legal problems.  But now, being creepy is a whole lot easier and more private.

I’m not really going anywhere with this.  It’s just meandering ramble.

All of that said, I am EXTREMELY grateful that I do have this option.  I’m terrible at writing letters, but somewhat better at emails.  And I have come across a few people that I really did just get out of touch with.  And I’ve even come across someone who I’d always intending on talking with, but circumstances just didn’t agree.  I like the opportunity to talk.  I just also like to keep the past in the past.

I have a lot going on in my head. Currently, the loudest thought is the unrelenting, pounding question of…….

What should I do in 2008?

Seem a bit extreme? Well, it is. A bit. I want to go back to school. I just don’t know for what. Here a few of the results from my last career test:

Preferences for Anne fully support being perceptually, subconsciously, and consciously aware of fantasy, symbols, symbolic relationships, abstract ideas, options, and choice of options as they relate to creative or innovative activities. Perception triggers ideas in Anne’s mind, a process that just happens – a process often called intuition.

Okay, I can see that.

Anne is conscious of existence, meaning, purpose, potential and destiny of humankind, people, and self.

Don’t know how true that is, but I certainly like the way it sounds.

Anne prefers and may even require change and variety. Sameness and routine cause loss of interest, drive, and energy. Anne probably sees a truth in the saying “a change is as good as a rest.” This individual enjoys vocation, recreation, and/or vacations that include lots of change and variety, new challenges and experiences as well as new contacts and acquaintances.

Can’t argue with that.

Deadlines do not motivate Anne as they only increase the pressure.

I could not agree more. It goes on and it’s pretty accurate. So here’s my job list.

I just picked out whatever seemed interesting. And now for scrambled eggs.