I am crap at blogging!

Ok, so well over a month has gone by. I sometimes think of blogs as a twinge of conscience rather than a forum through which to express your experiences and thoughts. You know it's bad when your blog makes you feel guilty. You are sitting at your computer thinking 'Hey! When was the last time I blogged? Shouldn't I do one now?' Then you get distracted by a pointless news article about people dressing up as vending machines in Japan, and you forget (but it was bloody hysterical, my personal favourite being the kid dressed as the World's Most Unconvincing Postbox':

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/20/world/20071020_JAPAN_SLIDESHOW_index.html

Korea plods along at a non-plodding pace. Six months, more, have passed. I look back in astonishment and wonder where they went.

Last weekend brought early Halloween celebrations. I dressed up as Leela from Futurama. People asked me how on earth I was going to manage the Cyclops problems. The short answer to that is I didn't. However, I did have purple hair and an attitude problem so that made things a little easier to work out.

I also made the serious error of going hiking with Dave, my fellow co-worker and ex professional climber. We took the 'scenic' route to the top of Baekundae Mountain which involved amongst other things, climbing through a tiny gap in a cave UPWARDS, hauling my sorry butt up a huge slippy granite rock on a rope and me managing to get cut several times as I sweated in a truly inelegant fashion. It was all worth it at the top though, particularly when Dave made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and it was quite possibly the thickest layer of peanut butter I have ever seen on a surface. The thought of it now scares me.

Sunday = a five hour Beethoven concert. FIVE HOURS! Maybe my sad pretense at being cultured will be quickly exposed when someone shakes me awake and tells me that I was drooling.