Tuesday, March 10, 2009

really getting sick of it

It's entirely possible that it's my personality that is clashing with the utter disarray that has consumed my office, but the new teachers seem to be picking it up a lot quicker than I am and I can't help myself but feel like an outdated model.

I've been doing this 2 months and would have quit if it were in the states. Maybe that's less of a sign of how crappy a job can be and more of a sign of how i view all forms of authority to be deranged and maniacal. Let's hope for the best when it comes to my capacity for bull.

I'm asking the authorities (friends of friends) this week for internet access in my apartment. The paycheck coming in later today (Tuesday) will be spent on furnishings for the apartment, and the rest will be thrown in the old piggybank. I'm determined to save money, because i can honestly see myself enjoying it more back home more than enjoying it here. In this gigantic city that does not sleep or breathe or think like i do. More accurately, I don't like living in the city and I don't think i'll ever live downtown in a city like this again unless i'm entirely involved in a project nearby.

Speaking of project, I've downloaded a (...free?) copy of microsoft office for my computer and it works perfectly. This is good because we don't have computers at work and I can now work on things on my computer instead of having to jump on one of the Korean teachers'.

Besides work, I really have no updates. This month i had some pretty big expenditures:
ski trip
glasses, shirt, hoodie shopping trip
bottle of whiskey (a mistake i will never make again)
utility bill (300+)

Each was a pretty large chunk of the pie and I don't intend to go hog-wild for the rest of my year here. The conversion rate looks like CRAP right now, which is no good for me (100,000 won = $64.75). The amount i save keeps becoming less and less in dollars. What are ya gunna do, eh?

2 comments:

  1. the last 2 paragraphs look like my life.

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  2. Play the conversion rate like you'd play the stock market. Then you can have a huge heep of cash for somebody to steal.

    Also have you ever seen Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift? You being in Seoul reminds me of that. Sweet

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