I need to be more focused. I feel that my mind and my priorities are so helter skelter these days. I guess priorities change when you have a girlfriend, but it doesn't mean that everything else should be put on the back shelf. I really need to keep myself more physically fit. I need to exercise more. Tuesday I ran like 2 miles and I feel it in my legs. Also, beer and alcohol is definitely a No. I feel horrible afterwards and tired the next day. Well...I don't mind wine. Wine seems to be OK, but beer simply bloats me. I need to make a rule and stay away from beer. I'm staying away from Soju for sure. It turns me into a raving jerk and that's not what I want to be. To be honest, I like myself the best when I'm actively doing something either teaching, working, having intelligent conversations, or writing. I should focus more on my writing. I will focus on learning Korean too...for real this time- I mean it. Dan

Oh my gosh, the Pegasus becomes a kamikaze weapon to destroy the Cylon's battleship. Starbuck kills her Cylon captor and the father of her daughter in front of her daughter. New Caprica is evacuated by Adama. Sharon and Agathon's half cylon, half human baby is recovered by Lucy Lawless and Starbuck finds out her daughter is not really her daughter but someone elses. Captain Adama: "I guess you didn't understand my orders." Apollo: "I could never read your hand writing." SO...I was wrong. I thought that the series was going the wrong direction. My favorite character Starbuck was playing mother in a holding cell, Apollo gained a ton of weight, Adama had a mustache, Gaeta was the pencil pusher for Baltar and the damn Cylons were in charge! Also, Saul- whom I never really liked, lost his eye and was leading the Earth's resistance in a very irrational non-Adama way. There seemed to be no nobility, no justice, in his actions and all of this added ...

So the TV season this year was starting to look blah, but I'm totally into two series that I had written off as kinda "not intriguing but enough to pass the time." I was wrong. Heroes had some awful acting quirks that took me out of the show, especially when Simone (played by Tawny Cypress) tells her heroin addicted boyfriend (heroine? wordplay for his choice of vice??? like Hiro and Hero???) "But I love you." It took me out of the show because the delivery was so fake and there was no buildup to establish there was love at all. The words were empty. The only reason I kept with the show was because of Hiro and Claire. Hiro was simply cute-in a non gay way; he kept me happily his anticipating his story. Plus his reparte with his Japanese buddy (sorry I forget his name) added a sense of Peter Parker quirky wit. Claire although she totally deep throats the popular cheerleader image that finds out she's a freak image, she is gorgeous and her acting brings...

I recommend I play the song for the class it is SOOOOOOOO funny. It's like twist sung to these lyrics.

Back to school and back to making lessons for school :( No I mean :) No I really mean :() hehehehe. Hi Yea Jin! I miss you! Alright. I have 5 class periods to get through two chapters in the book. 1. Do the dialogue in the book. Show flashcards (pizza parlor, computer games, swimming,) and get one student to invite the other student to accept or reject the invitation. 2. Listen and repeat. 3. Do Look and Speak on page 122. 4. Focus on the sound differences of "Can" and "Can't." 5. The "Can you join us game?" and if time do the Bingo game. Dan

I highly recommend this book. It's well written and it gives a lot of insight into the Korean language and culture. These are some of my favorite idioms: 화장발/조명발 Cosmetic effect. Lighting effect- the girl( or man) only looks good because of the make-up or because of the lighting. 교편 잡다 - the love stick (the rod used to discipline students) 당근이지- That's the carrot- Of course! Right on! 고무신바꿔 신었다- She changed her rubber shoes- she found a new boyfriend. 필름끊겼다- My film stopped rolling- I passed out after heavy drinking.

Gold is at 592.00 Maybe I should buy at $550?