jessicafischerqueen: Arghh sorry everyone, I meant to catch up with replies and stout messages- thanks so much for those.I just spent my entire two days off in and out of hospital getting all manner of drugs and physical therapy for an "office injury."
The muscles that lie underneath my scapulae are seized and the pain is excutiating- the cause is too much typing, from double shifts at work.
I couldn't avoid this because the entire country's high school students just took their government exams last week.
In Korea, a student's future job is quite literally on the line with this odious test, so there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Some parents took their children out of our school because they cracked under the pressure, some were suicidal although "officially" they weren't.
I'm just typing this message here now to keep in touch, I read all your messages in my forum and many over the website, thanks to you all and in addition there seems to be a Christmas spirit in the air, good to see so many in good cheer.
<Niels> I'll just chime in here with some shock at the idea that anyone would be so petty as to taunt you by deliberately sabotaging your post counts by personal deletions in their fora.
That kind of pettiness boggles the imagination. Please don't let it ruin your obviously good spirited posts these days, they are a breath of fresh air all over the site, particularly in conjunction with dear <brankat>.
<Travis> and <Harry> I'll be back when I can with comments on your musical selections and cheery posts- <Harry> I'll show you how to present a position from one of your games so it makes a diagram if you don't know.
At any rate thanks <PB and J> <Howard> and <Big>, <Boomie> and <chancho> <Thanh>, and <Rudolph> and <Eddy>.
I owe emails to half of Christendom as well, which brings me to thank my dear brothers <cormier> <playground player> and <Ohio> for your recent humor, good cheer and beauty. Yes I said beauty.
Please forgive my rambling as well as tone, because I'm blocked up on large amounts of oxycontin-substitute.
I suspect it actually *is* oxycontin but they won't tell me because "officially" nobody in Korea ever takes heroin analogues.
I don't care for it myself but it's been the only way I got any sleep at all this weekend.
Luckily the national exam is over and I can enjoy some lighter duty now.
I can't really tell anyone at school about this because "officially" nobody in Korea ever misses work from ailments, and truthfully they really consider it a sign of weakness.
Most of the other teachers look half-dead to me, but they never miss a minute's work.
I suspect some of them may actually be dead, but are still pressing on because "officially" death is not an excuse for malingering.
Anyways sorry for piling all of this into one post when all of you deserve proper individual answers.
My "doctor" says my condition is "day to day."
I'm guessing what he actually "said," however, since communication consists of a lot of arm waving, pointing, and the drawing of diagrams amid an unholy melange of their Konglish vs. my Hanglish.
I'd hire an interpreter if there actually were anyone in my village who spoke both languages.
Unfortunately, there isn't.
Ok back soon I hope, not supposed to be typing at all.
Ok then.
Merry Christmas everyone, even <Tiny Boomie>.
Kibitzing
