pithy pop song wisdom

you say you wanna go there?
ride, then.
you say you don't wanna be here?
leave, then.
time comes to get gone.
--greg dulli

and the time will come
when you add up the numbers
and the time will come
when you motor away
why don't you just
drive away?
--robert pollard

here's the thing. i used to be unhappy. desperately so. to the point of being a cliche. and then...i left the place that made me unhappy and i tried something new. i have no patience for unhappy people. i just don't. the world is full of ways to be joyous. try harder.

imaginary daegu, giver of very real hangovers

this weekend my co-worker/chingu jacks and i went down to daegu, the city where i used to live. we call it imaginary daegu, since i claim often that daegu has many amazing features that i have yet to find in seoul. chiefly, oven-baked pasta, crab rangoon and cheap and lovel pedicures. and we found all of these. we also found some bamboo soju. and when i say we found some bamboo soju i mean i personally drank my weight in it. ugh.

sunday afternoon i set an alarm to make sure that we'd get back up to catch the train up to seoul. an alarm for 2pm. and i remember being upset that we had to get up that early.

don't get me wrong, it was an awesome weekend. that i would really prefer to never, ever repeat again.