This is a rambling post that covers a variety of topics and thoughts. Just FYI so you know ahead of time.

It’s a pretty dull night tonight and the college kids’ party next door promises to prevent sleep for me this evening. Damn kids.. >.< heh, oh boy.. so I'm trying to pass time.

I'm definitely in a bit of a lull this evening. You know it's pretty bad when you're passing the time with this kind of crap:

In other news…

Looks like Sunday & Monday (Monday = holiday) will be my exercise days this weekend. I’m going to (try to) give an extra day for those blisters to callous over. In the mean time I’ll do some crunches, push ups, and anything else that I can think of that doesn’t require putting pressure onto the soles of my feet.

In so far as Korean is concerned, I’ve been told that I’m doing pretty good but I don’t entirely believe it. Then again, I have a difficult time taking compliments at face value and, as always, I try to judge a situation intuitively. It’s just lovely being an introvert at times. Frankly, I don’t think that I’m doing all that well in the class. I can study harder though, so I’ll just have to do that.

If I don’t live up to my own expectations then I’ll never be satisfied.

What’s most frustrating is that I have the vowels & consonants memorized, but I stumble over one or two and they’re always the same blasted sounds. You would think that the brain would catch on with those characters, but nooOoOo.. “Oe” and “ou” (ala “you“) and Keeyock <-> Neeun are the characters causing me strife.

So simple, yet, so flowing from one ear and out of the other.

Additionally I know that I have the pronunciation correct in my head, but speaking some of those sounds is proving a might difficult. L/R? Riiight. ;D This again goes back to study & practice; I’ve simply never had to make those sounds before so of course it’s proving difficult. Knowing this does not make it any less frustrating, however.

…and yet in other news…

One instructor seems to have a habit of acknowledging a particular student with a noticeably higher percentage than the rest of us. It’s my theory that they know each other outside of the classroom, and they seem to forget that not everyone in the classroom has the benefit of discussing the topic on (such) a more personal level.

This behavior is starting to get under my skin, but there is one caveat: I don’t know if my theory is correct.

In other words, there are times that we don’t notice things in our day to day life until something causes us to look for that specific “thing”. This, in turn, can result in the person thinking that there is an abnormally frequent occurrence of the event (or what have you). The truth of the matter is that they are simply beginning to notice what has always been there to begin with.

To wit, it’s possible that my annoyance has caused me to notice certain behavior more than I typically would, and I need to observe more before I jump to any definite conclusion. Hopefully I can do this rationally while observing the over all interaction in my particular setting.

I’m only human, after all. I s’pose we’ll see.

Those last few paragraphs are deliberately long winded. There are practical reasons for this.

Bloody hell.. that party is going to be going for a few more hours yet. Must find something else to do… Perhaps it would have been a good idea to get those sleeping pills after all.

Later folks,
~Steph