my blog has just been full of 1 liners or a few sentences at most. what a tease.

this qtr. seems like it's going to be a really busy one. it turns out that i'm actually going to have to do all the reading for my film class and my soc. class has three different books. assigned reading for each of those books every week. on top of that, i got a new student to tutor...

(phone rings during lunch).
me: hello?
stranger: hi. can i ask you something? (terrible accent).
me: sorry, i'm really busy right now (assuming it was a telemarketer).
stranger: do you know won suk?
me: uh yes.
stranger: you tutor them english?
me: ......hangook saram eesehyoh?
stranger: OH! NEH NEH!!!
me: ooooooo.

so this guy who i thought would be about my dad's age turned out to be this young guy in his early thirties. he wants me to tutor him and his wife in english! "WHAT?!" right? no writing. just speaking straight up: grammar, courtesy, slang...all that good stuff. he wanted to meet for dinner so i went to his house that same night he called me. REALLY nice people! you know, the kind that say "thank you" 5 times in two sentences?
it was kinda cool cause i could tell they felt really comfortable with me being their tutor and all. i mean, they wanted me to give them their english names right there on the spot! since the guy's name was Jin Hee, i just told him to call himself Jin. however, his wife's name was Hye Rim. i tried to think of nice names that started with an H. she thought Helen sounded too old-fashioned so i figured she wanted something original. i guess those koreans are tired of having the typical korean-american name. *shrug* the only H name i could think of at the time was Harriet (and i don't even know any in real life or in fiction). haha. they both really liked it so i guess her name's Harriet now. hmmmm, now that i think about it, i think Heather would have been a good name too. oh well.

oh yeah, they found out about me through my other students. Harriet actually happens to be jordan's violin teacher. God knows that i have been wanting/needing at least one more student. God provides. God is good.

i've been playing alotta hold'em these days. i even bought some nice chips on ebay which i hope to receive tomorrow. man, i never knew i'd get so hooked on this game. i can definitely understand why albert quit/is taking a break from hold'em. i can definitely see the dangers of idolatry and greed in just playing an "innocent" game of poker. freakin' satan. he'll use ANYTHING to make you sin. i'm trying really hard to learn how to play the game with the right heart. if i fail to learn soon, i'll have to abstain from this liberty for a bit just like i did with blackjack.

i've been reading 1 Kings for my devotionals these days. i felt like this was one of those books that weren't so good for devotionals. perhaps i'm immature and i'm not just reading the book correctly. but today, i read about Solomon's fall b/c of his sinful relationships with his hundreds of wives and concubines. it hit me that just b/c you're the wisest and most knowledgeable person in the world doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to be the most obedient person. i mean, you figure that having wisdom means "knowing better" and to "know better" is to obey God. if anything, it only makes you a bigger fool to "know better" and to not live accordingly. well it just so happens that i feel like King Solomon these days. i really do "know better" yet i live like i don't. while i'm out there judging the whole world, here i am pointing two fingers back at myself. funny how the wisest king to ever live was no better than me. we both need Christ.

and finally, my last piece of update. i finally got justin's belated bday gift to me a few days ago. Bose computer speakers. i never thought it'd come but it finally came...unexpectedly too. thank you for the new speakers, my friend. i am putting them to good use (ebay). lol. just kidding.

Thought of the Day: Spanish is so hard!
Song of the Day: Your Great Renown