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See. It is big enough to have parties. And it gets good light. Here are pictures of the apartment. If you're interested than please contact me.

I am moving in 2 weeks and I'm so excited! Here are some pics of my new place.

I bought this wine from a place called Wine Route in Jamwon. It is right up exit 3? It's the exit that goes up to Kim's Club. It's a quaint little wine shop and from what I saw a good selection and reasonable prices. This one was 19,000. I bought a nice pinot, but it's a 2005 so I'm going to sit on it for a year or so. 2009 is going to be a good year because I have a couple wonderful bottles that I've put in storage. First of all...it's bouquet is strong. I'm getting oak and currants, tobacco, and a bit of...wet coffee grinds. I've been letting it air out for a while, about 3 minutes. It's a wine that needs to breath. And now for the tasting. I'm getting apricot. Tart apricot and tobacco. I am getting a bit of ripe blackberries that have been left out in the sun for a while- a slight raisin-ness. It's dry. A medium to high level of dryness. It's mouth feel is a bit burnt buttery. Hmmm. It's starting to grow on me. I...

Thursday I went to the new Hooters in Gangnam. It's about a block from Gangnam Station, exit 3. It was a good time. I met my friend Stefan and a bunch of his friends from Ansan. Tim also came out. The beer was watery Cass, which was a bit disappointing. They should have tapped some Miller Lite or the Rockies. I had the buffalo shrimp and the girls were...very service oriented. They had Miss Hooters International there and a bunch of other American waitresses from all over. It was fun to see the contrasts between the Korean dancers and the American dancers. The Korean dancers tried to look serious and sexy while the Americans were just teeming with excitement and exhibitionism.

This wine was the winner of the Medaille D'Argent, International Challenge in 2004. I bought it for 22,000 at damn it...I can't remember the name right now. It's a chain, but it's down the street from exit 4 at Seoul National University of Education (Gyo Dae). It's the one down from MOA. Anyway...the bouquet I'm getting is fragrant honey dew. It smells a tad flinty and with a bit of lavender. I could smell this all day. Strangely, I'm also getting a bit of white pepper. Overall, a wonderful bouquet. Very soft, velvety soft mouth feel. I'm getting hints of cantaloupe, wet rock, jasmine, and...lemonheads. I can't tell you enough about the mouth feel. It's so silky and the trail is effervescent like menthol. I'm rating this one a 92.

And that's all I'm going to say about that.

This is Mr. Happy.

Nice vicosity. Deep rich purple color. Nose has hints of black licorice, currants, and soft leather. I know that sounds odd, but it's a nice bouquet. Wonderful mouth feel...silky with a bit of pepper. I'm getting coffee...like tanzania peaberry- it's a bit earthy. I'm tasting some licorice, tart strawberry, and semi-sweet nestle chocolate chips. Wow...the taste lingers and lingers. I'm getting a bit of mint and rosemary. It's herbacious! I like it. I'm going to score it a 91. Dan

I'm selling off a bunch of stuff that I don't need anymore. Here's the pics. If anyone is interested then e-mail me dnlgray@gmail.com. I'm near Nambu Terminal. Dan

Analyze your dreams! I am teaching symbolic analysis this term at my hagwon. Here's a list of different symbols that could be related to dreams. I feel that if I can teach kids the concept of symbols then they'll be able to make their own connections. I'm also going to be showing Cool Hand Luke and analyze the symbols in that movie. Dan 1. Animals represent habits. Animals function from instinct, reacting to pleasure or pain. Having differing degrees of memory and the ability for attention, animals lack the evolutionary development including sufficient brain capacity needed for imagination. Most animals in a dream will represent the dreamer's habits. 1. Baby is a new idea. A child is the result of uniting of a male and female. In the language of mind this represents the cooperative use of the aggressive and receptive principles to create something new. 3. Clothes signify how the dreamer is expressing Self. Clothes indicate the part of the Self others view. Many cultur...

I'm going to be busy as heck for the next 4 weeks so I probably won't be posting as much. Forgive me and wish me luck. Dan

In my writing class the students were supposed to brainstorm about disturbing trends in Korea and I said that Black Bean Tea was a disturbing trend. Then I went on to expound on the ghastliness of corn tea (it tastes like soggy popcorn!) and that this will lead Korea to make teas from everything: from flower teas, bundaeggi tea, water tea, book-tea, and even pen-tea. The last one was a mistake. My class exploded with laughter and was left red faced.