Seoul Hero

Today I had lunch and a great time with my friend Wyatt. I would be quite sad that he is returning to America if it weren’t for the fact that I will return to Canada only about a month later. Well, Wyatt, thanks for squeezing me in a few days before your return [...]

This post is dedicated to my friend and colleague, Kevin (warning: very irreverent blog. Sometimes the author appears to cross lines that he doesn’t actually cross).
I know Kevin has a deep interest in Buddhism, so below I give him a picture I took today at Bongeunsa to replace a few [...]

As mentioned many times in my previous notes on “Homer’s” Odyssey, the foil for the virtuous Penelope is the vile Clytemnestra, who killed her hapless husband, Agamemnon, with her lover, Aegisthus. Euripides’ Electra picks up the story of the offspring of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, Orestes and Electra before Orestes rescues his other sister [...]

UPDATE: Email working again–it was for about two hours that it was totally unaccessible.
My thanks to those who’ve emailed me. Regarding email, everything has been going quite well until about an hour ago, when I suddenly became unable to access my new email address either through the web or through Outlook Express. My [...]

My thanks go to Jon Allen and EFL Geek for their recent responses to my previous post. EFL Geek was kind enough to send me an Gmail invite in response to my previous post on my email situation. After having created a Gmail address, however, I found that I didn’t actually like the [...]

My email provider, the University of Toronto, has finally decided to terminate my account, an unsurprising development, given how long ago I graduated from that institution. They have said that my account will be terminated in two months, but they will automatically forward all email to another email I can provide them. Given [...]

This morning Chae Young went to the local dong office. The immigration section of the Canadian embassy informed us by mail that they need the “hojok deungbon” of her ex-husband. They say they need this because they want to verify that she has no other children than the one she and I have [...]