Argh I just got back an hour ago and I've never loved the Philippines more. And my computer. Kelsey is ineffably wonderful.

I MET SUSAN!!!
I'm doing the announcing on her behalf as Susan is either in China or touring the South of Korea (what would you call that? South South Korea?). I'd love to tell you about the lovely time we - or at least I - had, but it would work better with the few pictures we took, actually I just want to share the pictures, so I'll get back to this once I get to upload my photos.

And, Adam, I found this rather amusing: I met up with a couple of Korean girls a few days ago and in all Korean ditzdom we were talking about college and the "waters" at each school. I don't know the etymological origin, but traditionally Koreans haved talked about 'good waters' 'bad waters' when referring to potential marriage material. Anyway, one of the girls turns to me and goes, [rough translation] "Oh! I was worried about you at first but it's all okay now! There's a cute Korean guy at the school you're going to! Look for Bryan Lee!"

John, I don't remember much of the Kant, but I think a lot of it had to do with 'disinterestedness.' As in, when one judges something to be beautiful he must be disinterested for the judgement to be valid, free of personal wants like a desire to possess the beautiful object in question. Otherwise it would be 'pleasing' or the other 'not-beautiful' term he defined.

Also, Kelsey, JACOB IS NOT EXCUSED because he agreed beforehand to send in his things before he left. In conclusion, Jacob is a terrible person. Not to mention a bad tasper.

I'll end this post with, not a question but, something I read on the plane. It's for Eunice, who kept saying, every time we walked back from seminar, that there ought to be a way to describe how sunlight flickers through leaves as you walk beneath them.

He walked by the treeshade of sunnywinking leaves
- Ulysses

posted by Tae-Yeoun Keum   [9:33 AM]

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