on october 13 Amaerica’s Best Dance Crew is coming to the northwest . . . aaand i’m mildly intersted. but i’ll surely go if there are other people feelin’ the itch to hang out with 13 and 14 year old, shady looking asian kids that probably went to my old high school. but if kaba modern gets put in the line-up, i just might go by myself. haha
ugh. i’m so behind in my posting . . . things i need to blog about soon: warm beach, weddings, my new job, heroes, returning to seattle.
QUESTION: i’m trying to post some videos on youtube, but they come out SUPER choppy. the videos aren’t great quality to begin with, but i didn’t expect to lose so much more in the upload process . . . any suggestions?
and yes, i do know where Andorra is. i’ve spent the last week on ilike2learn.com i now know the world. the only countries i mess up on are turkey and hungary . . . cause they both make me salivate.
makes me miss “where in the world is carmen sandiego” . . . the second round always made me mad because it was all luck . . . and vick the slick creeped me out.
1. NEW GLASSES
so you all know me and my ghetto self . . . my last pair of glasses started falling apart . . . but i wasn’t until both the side pieces fell off, numerous bouts of trying to super glue them back on, and finally wearing them as a “bi-monocle” for a week that i decided it was time to get some new ones. and they’re ecko. i feel so urban. ^^
2. LOST
ughhhh . . . my stomach has been cramping with excitement the last week over the upcoming season premier of lost (or maybe it was that questionable looking piece of bok choi that i ate off the ground). but seriously, i’m screaming like a little girl (on the inside) waiting for thursday night to arrive.
aaand … $20 says that the funeral that jack went to at the end of season three was sawyer’s.
3. ATTN: ALL MY KOREAN SPEAKING/READING FRIENDS
in case you did not know, i am a 5th generation korean american on my dad’s side. this makes me quite rare, and information on my family’s story is pretty scarce. one of my cohort members is an intervarsity minister from S Korean, and when i told him how long my family has been in the states he got スーパー excited. anyway . . . he started telling me about this historical novel series called Arirang (named after the folk-song) by Jungrae Cho. apparently, one of the characters has the same last name as my family . . . and immigrated to the states around when my family did. if anyone knows anything about this, please help a brotha out. 감사합니다. 4. IT’S BEEN A WHILE . . .
since i’ve walked out of a church. i won’t go into too much detail, but i got pretty offended at a local “hipster” church gathering, when they started throwing around everyone’s favorite Christian culture catchphrase: diversity. it a horrible feeling to be seen and treated as a novelty. i was one of maybe 5 people of color (and one of 2 asians amidst 120+ attendees) at a potluck where every kind of casserole under the sun was displayed. i came up with this phrase to describe the atmosphere of the church: “unique homogeny” 5. CLASSES FOR THE SEMESTER
here’s the list of classes i’ll be hacking my through over the next few months:
LEAD 576 – Applied Research & Evaluation
EDEV 590 – Program Planning, Management & Marketing
ECON 514 – Urban Economics (i LOVE economics … should have been an econ major …)
INST 576 – Urban Sociology (with prof. TONY CAMPOLO … haha) well, that’s all for now.
next time: Why I’m Almost a Catholic (hopefully i’ll come up with a title with a little more wit to it).
