Old and Fat in your 30s. I get a couple envelopes in the mail from my ward office every year, containing information on how to arrange for a full medical check-up. The first envelope is for people my age. The second envelope gives me the option to be examined for signs of gastrointestinal cancer.

Lie to Me on White Day. I know several people who know absolutely no Korean at all, but are obsessed with some of these Korean dramas, so check some of them out. I want some stretch jeans.

On traveling, teaching, learning and living in far western China. Wednesday, July 11, 2012. The ticket price for Kanas was rather steep, so I was glad we actually got to use the tent we borrowed and save some money.

How better to fill the gap year than with an intense research fellowship? Centenarian archives, temple hunting and. Friday, July 9, 2010. In sunlight bathed in the glow of apples. On the slender, distant branches. Of the orchards outside Daegu,. As a train, as though ill,. Seems just now to have peaked in its fever. At times like these,. Even the silk wrapped round my waist hurts.

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