46 More Days

I really need to start taking more pictures...

Forty-six more days until I go to the States. I'm both psyched and uneasy about this. I'm of course super psyched to see my fam and friends, but there are certain elements of The Land of the Morning Calm that I have grown to love and which have come to serve as a great respite. But nothing lasts forever, and the future (at least for me) is and always will be uncertain, so I'm not going to dwell on anything just yet.

At the moment I am preparing to watch Dr. No, or Bond #1. I'm very interested to know how I will like it; I've always shyed away from the Bond movies because I think I saw part of Goldeneye at a strange time in my life and always associated that one experience with all Bond movies and thus concluded that I would never choose to watch them at liberty. However, recently I feel that I should give them another shot.

Today I went to the Korean Office of Immigration to extend my visa, because many people in the EPIK program were put in the nonsensical situation of having our visas expire less than a month before our contract is up. To make this situation even more absurd, we are technically required to pay 30,000 won in order to extend our visa if the extention is for purposes of working, whereas if the extention was for sightseeing, there would be no fee. !!! Luckily the woman there liked my co teacher and I got out of that situation, but honestly...I see no sense in that situation. EPIK really should make an arrangement with the government such that our visas can expire the last day of our contract, which for each bunch of new teachers who come over each semester, is usually the same day.

Enough whining.

Oh, and I want to share this quote with you that I saw on beginnertriathlete.com while reading a forum about freaky things that happen at pools (I have a lot more free time now that I am officially benched for '3-6 weeks'...if I had only listened to the sense in myself and strength trained like a smart athlete this wouldn't have happened!) and I though it was fantastic:

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Crap practice only makes
you a crapmaster." Mark Fleischman

Although I believe the first two sentences should be attributed to Vince Lombardi.

Anyways. Keep that in mind when you are practicing next time.

Although it would be pretty cool to be able to say that you are a crapmaster.