Thanksgiving and Hereafter

Yessir, I had a Thanksgiving. Here's proof:Granted, I'm not in any of those pictures so I could have just Googled them and downloaded some randoms or something, but I'm sure you trust me at this point. That's a long way to go to fabricate a lie, don't you think? And I wouldn't keep...talking about it if I were lying because to continue to talk about it means you're trying to cover up something. Like a lie.

Anyway, I took these pictures toward the beginning of the party as opposed to the end, when there were about six hundred more people and they were stabbing each other with turkey bones just to get the last slice of pumpkin pie. Actually, the hosts, a wonderful couple from Memphis, TN, ended up having quite a bit of leftovers to choose from.

After the food digesting began, we made our way to Kyungpook to watch our friends' band play at a bar. Here's proof of that as well: So, at this point I've got visual evidence of my whole night on Saturday. Lest you think I was in Vegas partying with strippers or something. Which is totally not what happened on Saturday.

So, yesterday I stumbled on to this entertaining site called "Uncyclopedia" (erm, maybe the more easily offended should avoid it) which is just like a Wikipedia, but a bit more politically incorrect. I looked at the South Korea page specifically. Although riddled with fake facts concerning Starcraft and kimchi farts, it did actually have two interesting facts (that are true) about the Korean language:

'If you're on a date in Korea, you can say "Da-li yeppo", which means both "the moon looks beautiful" (달이 예뻐) and "you've got nice legs" (다리 예뻐).'

'Korean is the only known language in which "my place of work" and "my rectum" are both, perhaps appropriately, the same word: jik-jang (직장).'

You should check out the United States of America page, too.

Did anyone reading this ever play Doom or Area 51 or Wolfenstein or one of those first person shooter games that came out before the Nintendo 64 existed? I feel like I play that game whenever I'm in school except instead of zombies or Nazis popping out and shooting at me, it's kids popping out and saying hello. In those games, monsters pop out of secret places and scare you and shoot at you, whereas in my life kids pop out of secret places like trash cans and toilet stalls and shoot at me with "hello" and I have to respond in due time or I lose life. Whenever I pass a teacher, it's like encountering a boss because I can't just say "hello" and be done with it. No, I have to blurt out "annyeong haseyo" (안녕 하세요) and bow. Some times, especially on Mondays, I literally forget how to move my mouth to utter this phrase and it comes out "mmummmble-seyo" and I bow and they bow and we go about our day as though I wasn't an inept Korean speaker.