I’ve been playing Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time on the DS. The game is fun, but it’s been slow going. I usually play about 4 times a week for an hour before I go asleep. I’d like to get through it, because Chrono Trigger was re-released this week. Although I have about 10 games in queue, I really want to play this for nostalgia sake and I never saw the cut scenes from the PS version.

I’m upgrading this blog to the 2.7 beta. It should be relatively stable for the simple tasks which I use it. Gawd. The dashboard is so much better in terms page real estate and posting.

Winter vacation is approaching next month at my school. It’s a month long, and I dont know if they’re going to throw some kind of winter program at me. They might as they’ve said (not to brag), I’m the best foreign teacher that they’ve had. Maybe it’s because I give a shit. From what I’ve heard, the previous teachers sounded unqualified, narrow minded, and (probably) incapable of dressing themselves.

If I have no classes, I’m looking for things to occupy my time. At some point, I’d like to take a trip to Japan. However, with the current economy, the exchange rate is terrible and I haven’t accrued enough money yet. The weather would be another deterrent. I’d much rather go when the weather is warm and cheery.

Last year, I was looking for authentic Korean t-shirts. Clothing WITHOUT English text. Finding a hangul t-shirt is like finding good tea. But a teacher pointed me to Goinsadong. It has some stylish calligraphy T’s.

I was going to dedicate a blog post to review YamiPod, but I’m too lazy. In short, the program works fantastic. I can easily add and remove songs from my iPod Nano without iTunes. It has tons of features for editing, deleting, and organizing your songs and ID3 tags. I think it’s a MUST have for your iPod. And since it can run off your iPod, you don’t need to install anything. It’s everything I wanted it to be and it’s FREE.

In these last few weeks, I think my alcohol tolerance has spiked. Over the summer, I used to get buzzed on 2 beers. That has changed with the re-introduction of soju. Drinking with Koreans really ups the ante. I’ve also been testing out soju cocktails with tomato, orange juice, and carrot juice. OJ is by far the best.

A week and a half ago, I ordered 2 kilos of yerba mate from the US. It’s being sent to my school, and it hasn’t arrived yet. I’m hoping it will find its way to me soon. If I remember correctly, it took almost a week for my Korean documents to go from my Seoul recruiter to my school. (Seoul is only an hour away.) Or maybe the government saw these 2 kilo bags of grassy shit and became suspicious. UPDATE: Grrr. I tracked the package and it said that it left NY on November 29. My supplier shipped it on Nov 15. WTF, USPS!