HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!

I've been listening to Verdi's requiem working on two majorly-procrastinated paintings at once ("Tae-Yeoun, why is it that you always use the same colors in all your paintings?") and I thought of you. Happy birthday.

Tara- the title bar read 'reasonably remarkable' for the first week of the blog until Kelsey came and fixed the formatting, and it's been 'here to expose ourselves' ever since.
Adrian- leave it to Adrian to compose a villanelle about a bird. :) Thanks, I enjoyed it. However, I did not enjoy The God of Small Things - what brought you to ask about it?
Alex- pretentious Tae-Yeoun only started looking for Coetzee when he won the Nobel. If you're interested, the Koreans pronounce it "koh-cheh" because they have difficulty pronouncing foreign names more than two syllables long.

I've picked up all your mannerisms and pretend they're mine - naturally I also do the 'well' thing and it annoys all my friends because they expect me to say something meaningful afterwards but I don't because Brian's 'well' stands on its own. I'm reminded of that exercise we did on the third seminar or something (I think it was our last seminar in the house before we moved to the seminar room) where we had to take a cliche and write a poem out of it - Brian's started with:

All's well that that ends.
Well, ...

Oh, while we're stressing over college apps, guess what Tae-Yeoun did! (I refer to myself in third person when I'm too ashamed of being me) You know the page on the Common App where you list your extracurricular activities and work experience? There's a question at the bottom, UNDER THE WORK EXPERIENCE HEADING, that asks which of "these activites (extracurricular and personal activities or work experience)" is the most meaningful to you and why. Tae-Yeoun's answer, which she sent out to her common app colleges a month ago, was:
having resided in the Philippines for nearly twelve years, I have not had many opportunities to find work, as under Philippine law foreigners under 18 are not permitted to hold jobs.
The entire guidance office took turns laughing at me. So now I'm miss none-of-my-activities-means-anything-to-me-because-I-don't-get-paid-for-it.

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [10:24 PM]

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