Last week a student said to me,

I found one of your hairs in the school. I knew it was yours because your hair is different.

It took me a minute to understand.

Lunch today

Taken by ⓣⓨⓁⓔⓡ～＊ http://www.flickr.com/photos/21381396@N05/5861823949

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In order to bow I must walk straight up.
If I do not, then I will bury myself with each bow.

I noticed

, a photo by ⓣⓨⓁⓔⓡ～＊ on Flickr.

I noticed yesterday that my aloe was leaning to one side, leaning on to its younger self. I decided to use the S-hook-cum-infinity loop that Garin gave me. I once had it in a wall installation back in Arkansas and I decided to take it with me to Seoul.
To combine aesthetic appreciation and utility is one of my aspirations. However, sometimes it can be too forced and too exhausted/ing. When I happen upon natural solutions (given the set variables of objects in my room or space) I feel very glad.
The name of my installation in Arkansas was "The Meaning of Friendship." I don't know what to name my aloe but something like that.

we eat lots of chicken around here

aram eats the life of hoards of chickens, a photo by ⓣⓨⓁⓔⓡ～＊ on Flickr.

I received my Alien Registration Card on Friday.

I immediately got an iPhone. I now am a full modern citizen. It feels about the same as being completely disconnected from the whole world, only, less "the whole world." Immediately afterwards, I started my first Bored Weekend in Korea. It was kind of bad to be bored, what with a sprawling city and the latest technology in front of me, but it happened.

문정지구, Munjeong's new area

Just outside of my window, there is a large green expanse; Aram says that it is going to be a new neighborhood. Around dusk some days I see two people maybe 20 meters apart. One is picking leaves off of bush. The other is standing, staring, waiting for the other. Sometimes also I see two vehicles driving on the dusty road, going in divergent directions. They move very slowly across the wide green. There are bulldozers resting in the greenery, too. I have never seen them moving, perhaps because they wake up after I have gone to work. There are large bundles covered in black plastic, large bundles covered in green plastic. There are the words 배동현 made with white spray paint. For me, this neighborhood waiting to be born is a blessing, because it fills my entire window and eases my mind.
Like a mischievous child, I want to go for a trek through that greenness, but, like a scared adult, I know that that is trespassing on no man's land.
On the map in Naver, I can see how they've planned how the area will be divided: into a park, a neighborhood square, green spaces, a courthouse, and business districts.

I sincerely hope that they take their time

Update 2011/06/13

Here are some photos I took the other day of the area. It's blissfully empty. I feel perhaps more tempted than ever to go walk around there. Perhaps seeing this fills me with some undue melancholia and a little bit of guilt. I really wish that it would stay green. And then I think that the place where I'm living now was once a green bunch at one time, too? 

I think I saw a church back in there...? It doesn't look very orchestrated, so I'm not sure how construction is being carried out.

My apartment building is the grey one just to the right of the middle.