October

I can't believe it's October already. Where does time go? It just keeps sliding away... Before ya know it it's a whole new month...

So far this month I have bought groceries. I went on the longest trek ever to Costco and bought some food stuffs. I should be able to live til next payday I hope.

the weather is crisping up and being a northerner at heart I love it. I like knowing it is cold enough to wear sweaters... In TN you never know... sometimes you can wear shorts until Christmas. I didn't realize how much I miss distinct seasons. Like, one day we woke up and could tell it was fall. That does not happen in TN. Tennessee flirts with fall. One day hot the next day cold, back and forth until about feb when it finally gives in and stays cold. Well, I like my seasons to know what they are doing and Korea so far is doing a good job of being decisive.

I dreamed last night that I went back to the states. But in my dream I was only dreaming I was in the states. It was very confusing. I woke up very disoriented.

Other than that life is good. The children all have a myriad of sicknesses they pass around, to each other and to me. I have never been sick so much in my whole life. I feel like I have had a cold for months. Hopefully I can kick it soon. I was talking with a friend and he suggested I get a can of Lysol and spray everything before I touch it. I was thinking also spray the children before they touch anything. And then he suggested for more of a serious attack on germs, wearing a bio-hazard suit, complete with face mask and gloves. I would like to take that one step further and suggest wearing bio-hazard suit and carrying a can of Lysol with which to spray everything, including the children... I think that would probably solve all my problems... I will look into it. The newest scary thing I saw on Friday was a kid with a crusty eye. If he has pink eye, we are all doomed. You can't escape the pink eye plague once it gets started. Especially in this school where the children rub themselves on you constantly. I had a little boy rub his snotty nose ON my hand. And then on Friday, a small child sneezed into my face. Full force. I couldn't avoid it. That's the problem with sitting in small chairs. It puts you at face level with all the wee ones and their air-born disease. I swear, if I make it out of here with my life nothing will ever be able to make me sick again. I will have become a super human. With super powers of non-sickness and a crazy immune system. Pfft, bring it on silly American illness, You got nothin on Korea!

Hmm... what else? I made a tree and put it on my wall. I will try to post a pic of it sometime... Its pretty impressive, for me anyway. I sometimes have random spurts of creativity that explode out of me. The problem is they can't be harnessed, and thus I am not consistent in my creativity. And that is a problem I think. People see a spurt and they think, oh this girl is good at _______. And then they set up unrealistic expectations... and then are surprised when I just don't have a good idea. silly people. It is so much easier to just be mediocre. Then no one expects anything ever and when something amazing happens, all are pleasantly surprised. Yes. this is actually a theory I have had for some time. Ever since I realized that if I was a good worker I would always end up doing way more work than everyone else. The key is to do a good job but not a fantastic job and then once and a while do something really amazing and everyone will oooh and ahhh over how amazing you are, and how much extra effort it must have been, when really it was nothing. It was almost easier than pretending to be normal. Ha. So far it works really well for me! except now I have let out my secret. Karma will get me!

I will stop now, I am sure you all stopped reading long ago, congrats if you stuck with it to this point!! Happy October! Let the harvest festivals, costume parties, pumpkin carving and apple bobbing commence!!!!

Michelle