New (and rather undeserved) i-Pod!

Yay!

For those of you who didn't know - which is perhaps all of you because I didn't mention to anyone, out of a deep rooted sense of denial, my beloved i-Pod went bust a couple of months ago. It was due to a corrupted file, or something along those shady lines (God knows I wouldn't like to comment on technology - I nearly wept over a failed e-mail attachment just an evening ago!) It was briefly repaired when I dropped it but this respite was at best short lived and soon it was making whirring noises and looking pitifully up at me as I willed it to play my favourite Chas and Dave CD.

But, aha! I went to Techno-Mart, this behemoth of a technology store, nine stories high, and in a dingy office on the fifth floor, I was told that I would receive a new i-Pod in the mail in a couple of days time. I did a small jig of delight and instantly vowed to soup it up with lots of posh protective accessories, as opposed to take it for granted and chuck it casually about the place, as I have been known to do.

Tonight is a staff do, welcoming Matt, an ex-teacher who left a month after I arrived, back into the fold and saying goodbye to Mike, who is currently giving all his teaching resources away, including a traffic light mural with each lamp bearing a happy face. As previously recorded in other blogs about staff nights out, much bek sae-ju is consumed and veiled insults fly thick and - well, thick - across the galbi burners. A car crash is what my co-worker Shaun calls it. I probably won't have the mental capacity to notice any kinds of details like that.