%&#$@@!!!!

so. right after i did my last post, i was on my way out to the clubs to celebrate my first week in daegu. now, not so much. now i am in niki's apartment, wiping runny mascara off my face, and back on the internet.

dang it if i didn't get locked out of my apartment. it's not what you may i think either. i have my keys, yes indeedily doo. but my dead bolt has been acting funny all week, and now it be broke. it won't turn, it won't open. normally, this would be an, "oh shoot, darn, i'll just have to sleep over with niki after we get all drunks" sort of thing. but no, i was planning on being up by 8 tomorrow and working all day on my masters paper, which still isn't done, but which needs to be done pretty bloody soon. and i happen to be in korea, where the locksmith will come, well, maybe on monday. maybe. which means no working on my stuff this weekend, no having any of my things all weekend. no going out tonight because i'd rather sit with one hand on a box of kleenex, and the other on the remote control in niki's apartment.

also, something that makes this situation really great, is that korea is a very sexest country. that's just how it is, i knew that coming here. however, when i call my boss and say my lock won't work, and he says, well, did you let peter try it? peter's probably strong enough. let me talk to peter on the phone. and i say, well, how about if you tell me what to do, and he says, no, go get peter. and i say how about if you tell me and then i tell peter, and he says no, i'm only going to tell peter, that makes me angry. way super angry.

oh i'm sorry, i'm a woman, and therefore, an idiot. oh the big bad metal thingy has made me all flushed and i'm just too weak to turn the key right. ouff! this boss man isn't very cool in that way. especially when i think how i told him right away that my lock was wonky and that someone should come have a look and he said that i just didn't understand it and i was like, um, yeah, because we don't have locks in america. at least i knew what a universal outlet converter was. maybe i will have to move back west one of these days after all.

but on the bright side, i took the trip of my life alone across the great city of daegu using public transit tonight. it was awesome. that's got to look good, even to a sexest korean man. but that's another post for another time. my kim bap is getting cold.

THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR AT THIS MOMENT:
1. kim bap across the street
2. niki
3. niki's internet/computer
4. hite beer
5. hmm . . . i think i hear a drill, could that be the locksmith?
6. my other boss, rosie, and coworker sunny
7. my cute shoes
8. my lewis and clark expedition to the siji walmart, alone
9. universal outlet converters
10. niki's apartment comes with an extra folding mattress, but mine didn't. lucky.
11. oh, there's niki's mp3 player . . .
12. all of you people, because rosie and sunny can't understand me when i sniffle-talk.
13. i didn't leave anything on in the apartment.
13. i am grateful to be in korea, i am grateful for my awesome job, and i am grateful that i know that there are worse things in life than being locked out of your sweet apartment that you don't have to pay rent for. but it still sucks.