Buttons, Paintball and Coffee
Well, it was another good weekend in Seoul. I drank copious amounts of coffee and a moderate amount of beer, made buttons, ate pancakes with bacon, hashbrowns, and a sausage patty, watched movies, danced, bought books and tickets to see Jay-Z, went paintballing and just generally had a good time. Oh, and I sat on a giant finger (I’ll try and post a picture).
The paintball was good except that their course is comprised mostly of chestnut trees that have dropped those spiky casings all over the ground. Not exactly a good place to crawl around avoiding enemy fire. I’m still picking slivers out of my left palm on Tuesday afternoon.
The button making was fun. We did it at Bricx so we could hit the hookahs again and have a few drinks to lubricate our creative contraptions. I think that the favorite I walked away with is “You’ll regret that when the Messiah comes.” I made one for myself that reads, in Korean, “I’m Lost!” I figured it might come in handy at some point and, let’s face facts- it’s accurate in some sense at least half of the time.
The western stlye breakfast was sooooooo good after my steady fare of yogurt and granolas bars. The pancakes were fluffy, the syrup was maple and the bacon was cooked to exactly the right level of crisp. Oh, and free refills on coffee (never happens). Oh, and it was real coffee. Most of the time here, unless you go to a “foofy” (Sommer’s word) coffee shop like Starbucks or something, you can only get instant coffee. Sometimes I almost cry thinking about how long it will be until I can take that first sip from a Tim Horton’s Extra Large Triple Triple.
I bought a couple books in the English (foreign) section of a bookstore downtown too. I got one about evolutionary psychology called “The Moral Animal” which seeks to explain the evolutionary basis for human relationships and thought processes. I’ve talked to some of my friends about these ideas before and they’re pretty interesting to think about. Also, I got Michel Foucault’s first book. I can’t remember what the title is off hand. It’s about the creation of the concept of ‘mental illness’ and the ‘asylum’. “Madness and Civilization”, that’s the name, I just Googled it. It also leads into his book, “Discipline and Punish” which deals with the penal system and various instruments of control that have developed within our society. Basically, his philosophies deal with imprisonment, power, and knowledge.
Anyway I’m going to get into these books as soon as I finish the one I’m on now. It’s some thriller called “Vampires”. Guess what it’s about.
The paintball was good except that their course is comprised mostly of chestnut trees that have dropped those spiky casings all over the ground. Not exactly a good place to crawl around avoiding enemy fire. I’m still picking slivers out of my left palm on Tuesday afternoon.
The button making was fun. We did it at Bricx so we could hit the hookahs again and have a few drinks to lubricate our creative contraptions. I think that the favorite I walked away with is “You’ll regret that when the Messiah comes.” I made one for myself that reads, in Korean, “I’m Lost!” I figured it might come in handy at some point and, let’s face facts- it’s accurate in some sense at least half of the time.
The western stlye breakfast was sooooooo good after my steady fare of yogurt and granolas bars. The pancakes were fluffy, the syrup was maple and the bacon was cooked to exactly the right level of crisp. Oh, and free refills on coffee (never happens). Oh, and it was real coffee. Most of the time here, unless you go to a “foofy” (Sommer’s word) coffee shop like Starbucks or something, you can only get instant coffee. Sometimes I almost cry thinking about how long it will be until I can take that first sip from a Tim Horton’s Extra Large Triple Triple.
I bought a couple books in the English (foreign) section of a bookstore downtown too. I got one about evolutionary psychology called “The Moral Animal” which seeks to explain the evolutionary basis for human relationships and thought processes. I’ve talked to some of my friends about these ideas before and they’re pretty interesting to think about. Also, I got Michel Foucault’s first book. I can’t remember what the title is off hand. It’s about the creation of the concept of ‘mental illness’ and the ‘asylum’. “Madness and Civilization”, that’s the name, I just Googled it. It also leads into his book, “Discipline and Punish” which deals with the penal system and various instruments of control that have developed within our society. Basically, his philosophies deal with imprisonment, power, and knowledge.
Anyway I’m going to get into these books as soon as I finish the one I’m on now. It’s some thriller called “Vampires”. Guess what it’s about.
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