I have the attention span of a grapefruit. I recently finished reading Korean Business Etiquette, and now I’m in four books—The Geography of Thought (p. 39), Managing the Non-Profit Organization (p. 125), Three Billion New Capitalists (p. 107), and Globalization and Its Discontents (p. 43). I recommend them all. You must read them now. Simultaneously.
At our National SDA Teachers’ Christmas Party, groups of teachers presented songs (and dances) from their homelands. The British leaders were trying to get more people to join them onstage, and finally one lady joined saying “I was colonized once.” As the performers were sitting down after the song, Jonathan (quite possibly the funniest person on the peninsula) announced that the Americans were officially forgiven for that little Tea Party thing. “It’s forgotten!”
We’re heading back to the U.S. for 6 weeks. We are definitely not packing light. To rationalize, we’re no longer calling this a vacation. It’s an international business transaction. Boyd Import-Export, Inc. is unofficially chartered for the express purpose of bringing joy (and packaged goods) to the world.
I haven’t been posting much recently because I’ve been spending my time at Korea on the Rocks. I interviewed the first Korean to climb 5.14 (Son Jung-jun), and wrote a profile for KOTR. I also posted his gym. The profile is long on facts and short on stories--my apologies. I also interviewed TICOM about eating well in Seoul (Have you figured out who TICOM is?). I added to the basics of climbing. And I started a thread on what people learn from climbing. The rest of my KOTR posts are less significant for the general reading public (just think how bad they must be). My handle is Curious_j. FYI.
We leave in 6 hours for our trip. It's midnight. I still need to pack. It would take an anti-gravity device to make this expedition light.
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