Life in Korea is okay, you know. Its very different to back home in the UK but a place is really just a place. I spend much of my time either working or else at home. Within the home and with the curtains closed it isnt really Korea at all. Its Milesville. BBC on the TV, internet hooked up to familiar places like this, British Sea Power on the stereo, Shakespeare and Wilde on the bookshelves. Home comforts, simple pleasures that make living away in what may be percieved as a strange place so much...

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This weekend has been okay but I haven't really done anything. A somewhat pointless weekend really and so a wonderfully enthralling post to contemplate some of the other pointless stories and things in the world that have passed my way in the last week.

1) Excessive food packaging. Everything seems to come in that really annoying plastic covering and its just so difficult to open. And small things always seem to come in absurdly large boxes. Very pointless.

2) Chavs....

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I'm a little upset because I spent a significant amount of time writing a seriously rambling existential type piece....and then I got a dead screen and clicked back and found it was all for nothing. All gone. Irritating computer. A pretty existential act in itself really upon reflection.

Tonight I watched the newest addition to my Hitchcock collection "I Confess". It was a good film with Montgomery Clift as the priest framed and unable to reveal the murder confessed in the...

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Getting old is something that I probably spend too much time thinking about. It happens to us all and there is no escaping it. Most of us don't notice how the ageing process gradually begins to gnaw away, bit by bit. You sometimes need to be able to step outside of the self to really have any idea of it happening at all. Im 28 now and just 10 years ago was still a teen going through the university process and yet just 10 years later I will be 38 and in the throes of middle age. The lines will undoubtably...

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I'm hungover which is a state I find myself in once a week if I'm careful and twice a week if I'm feeling anarchic. It is no major concern because I have a free day and no classroom duties to fulfill. I should really be analysing a chapter from an exciting little book entitled "Vocabulary: Applied linguistic perspectives". I don't think I will manage to get around to that in my current condition.

Today is a quiet little day with me just pottering about the home. I have a...

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