Sunday, November 22, 2009
Socks
No matter how I put my socks in the washer--whether it be inside-out or normal--they end up inside-out when the cycle finishes. I don't get it.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Scrabble and Swine Flu
So it's about 6:40, Sunday evening. I went to a brunch with some friends, and since have been hanging out in my apartment just relaxing, eating pizza, watching soccer, and playing online Scrabble. It's been nice. My crowning achievement was scoring 230 points on a word... "quiverer." How, do you ask? Covered two triple-word scores. I'm a word nerd, and proud of it.
The Swine Flu thing is rather ridiculous. I can't go anywhere these days without hearing conversation about the H1N1 deal; here in Korea it's spoken of as the "Sin-jong flu" which sounds like "shinjong ploo." But it just means "new flu." There are lots of reported cases of it here, but it all seems like just big media hype. I know it's spreading like wildfire, but it's a flu. Lots of people die every year from the flu (which has a zillion forms.) Regardless, it's affecting daily life here. Maybe it's the same back in the States, but here the general fear is worsening. Every day at school, the kids have to have their temperatures taken before they enter the classroom. Last week, several kids were sent home daily because their temperatures were too high, the impression being that if they a fever they shouldn't be in class--no problem there. But I just learned on Friday that the temperature-taking girl (who is the secretary, and nothing more) seems to think that 37.0 c (pretty much 98.6 f) is a fever. Granted, some of the kids have had high temperatures, being around 100 f, but the really ridiculous part is that they don't clean the thermometer between testing kids. Even after she sticks it in some kid's ear, determines he has a fever and possibly is on his way to the morgue. No, it's just "OH NO, GO HOME! YOU ARE INFECTED!" and 'plop!' right in the next kid's ear. I don't think the little plastic "protector" has ever been changed.
The Swine Flu thing is rather ridiculous. I can't go anywhere these days without hearing conversation about the H1N1 deal; here in Korea it's spoken of as the "Sin-jong flu" which sounds like "shinjong ploo." But it just means "new flu." There are lots of reported cases of it here, but it all seems like just big media hype. I know it's spreading like wildfire, but it's a flu. Lots of people die every year from the flu (which has a zillion forms.) Regardless, it's affecting daily life here. Maybe it's the same back in the States, but here the general fear is worsening. Every day at school, the kids have to have their temperatures taken before they enter the classroom. Last week, several kids were sent home daily because their temperatures were too high, the impression being that if they a fever they shouldn't be in class--no problem there. But I just learned on Friday that the temperature-taking girl (who is the secretary, and nothing more) seems to think that 37.0 c (pretty much 98.6 f) is a fever. Granted, some of the kids have had high temperatures, being around 100 f, but the really ridiculous part is that they don't clean the thermometer between testing kids. Even after she sticks it in some kid's ear, determines he has a fever and possibly is on his way to the morgue. No, it's just "OH NO, GO HOME! YOU ARE INFECTED!" and 'plop!' right in the next kid's ear. I don't think the little plastic "protector" has ever been changed.
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