Christmas isn't so bad... And this kid is really funny.

I hope I don't get really sick before next week. I'm going to get sick in China anyway, because EVERYONE gets sick in China in the winter.

Oh, and Obama beats McCain. 12/22/2007. I called it.

Have you ever played the best game ever?

Go around the room and each person gets to ask the next person a question.

The answer to every question is "SAUSAGES."

You ask a question, any question, and the next person has to answer without laughing.... If they don't laugh when they answer, they're still in the game and they ask the next person a question. If they laugh, they're out!

The possibilities are endless.

What do you put in your cereal?
Sausages.
What do you use to wash your face?
Sausages.
What does your mother look like?
Sausages.

Imagine how dirty this could get! I can't wait to play this with the kindergarten class.

Election so exciting. I feel so smrat.

A year ago when Obama and Huckabee entered the race, I called it that they were the most attractive candidates on either side. I thought they'd be vice-presidents though. Not this.

It's so exciting reading the headlines every day. It's like the good stretches of West Wing episodes. Yay. Yay. Yay. Until the Wire and Lost come back, this is the best soap opera around.

P.S. Lee Myung Bak is the new prime minister here... He's anti-North Korea, so there might be some more bomb testings soon. So much drama!

So Happy Today

With the slightest of efforts, I purchased a $10 cable to hook my computer to the TV, and POOF LIKE THAT VOILA, I've got a 21" screen for all my (legally, I swear) video files on the computer!!!

Yay. Yay. Yaya Yay. Yay. Yay. Yayayaya. I'm so happy right now.

I don't know what to watch though. So I wrote this.

I'm related to this guy.

He lived until 116 near Chernobyl. Can you imagine what he saw since 1891? He could have bullied Stalin at the public pool. What a gangster.

So I'm shoppin' at E-Mart and...

A kid no older than kindergarten comes up to me with an ice cream cone in his hand and says, "You speak English?"

I look down at him and nod, kind of shocked.

"Me, too," he says, and walks away.

I finally figured out that girl from "Juno" is....

Jim Lahey's daughter on Trailer Park Boys... It was quite a few years ago. She was his super cute daughter that wanted to hang out with Ricky and Julian.

I want to see this movie now.

Not my kid

I'm #4

This is what a really smart second grader wrote about me. I'm kind of proud:

"Our grammar teacher is Mr. K. His nickname is Mr. Cucumber Park. My class thinks that his nickname is funny, and so do I. Mr. K is not like other teachers, he doesn't seem like a teacher, and he's very funny. We like Mr. K because he makes our learning fun. Sometimes he raises his voice and gets a tweeny bit mad (He's scary!), but we don't care. I think Mr. K is the 4th best teacher I've ever had."

And she's in Grade 2, so she must have had at least five or six teachers by now.

The best pop song since "I want it that way."

I'm a little obsessed, I know, because I've been pushing this song on people for a few days already.

They call this the National Anthem here now, it's that big.... If you like this Korean pop, I can post a few more links to the stuff you hear every day here. Some of it's really fun.

More than you wanted to know: The musician they're making fun of in the beginning is Park Jin Young, a sensation in the mid-90's who now produces nearly all the Korean stars I've heard of... Here's what seems to be his biggest song -- 10 years old, but I still hear it all the time. (It's good, too.)