{"id":155,"date":"2013-09-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/post-148-september-11th-2011\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:00:00","slug":"post-148-september-11th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/post-148-september-11th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-148: September 11th, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tomorrow is September 11th. Two years ago on that day, I left the USA by plane to come to Korea for the second time. I started a job. Now two years have passed. I regret staying at this particular job that second year.<\/span> It was a mistake.<\/p>\n

In 2011, I knew I had to come (again, that is). There were many reasons. For some reason, I took a lot of “audio books” that I copied from the Arlington library, but I ended up listening to very few of them. Maybe only two.<\/span> Of the clothes I arrived with, relatively few are left. I have more money in my bank account now. I know more about Korea.I’ve seen more places. I’ve seen more people. I’m not sure if I am a more confident teacher. My ex-coworker M.R. (in Korea since 2004), who was said to resemble Steve Job by many students, was so antagonized by management here that he felt “working in Av**** has caused me to become a much worse teacher”. I sympathize with him, and I fear the same.<\/p>\n

I don’t know where I am going with this wandering retrospective, but…<\/span>Oh, and somewhere along in there I got the idea to do a big hiking trip across <\/span>South Korea, which I will begin on September 16th. <\/p>\n

Ever since I’ve been able to “see the end”, I’ve been doing <\/span>various things I need to do to “get my affairs in order”, and have not had the energy or desire to update this thing. Oh, right, I also started this blog in the two years I’ve been here, but have not much publicized it. <\/p>\n

<\/span>I still have never eaten dog nor “still-living octopus” (\uc0b0\ub099\uc9c0), but I could if I wanted to without much trouble.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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