My Canada includes smoked meat!

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Dani Park aka Danielle Park aka 하람박 aka Brooklyn Park aka Brookie. Where are you these days? I doubt I have any mutual LJ friends (been a while) but if that rings a bell and you have any info let me know. She used to attend the University of Chicago. She had cancer, lymphoma I believe, a couple years ago but beat it. But she's dropped off the face of the earth. Just curious where she is these days?

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I put in something of a lukewarm performance as a guest cohost of Dogma Free America.

 
I don't miss Korea. When I lived in Korea I thought every day "I'm going to miss this with a passion when I move home". But I don't. I miss the subway. I miss dumpster diving. But I've been so focused on restarting my life in Canada after 8 years away I haven't really missed Korea. I'm happy every day I go to work. I'm busy at work. It's not like Seattle. I like being able to communicate fluently with my coworkers.

I miss my GF of course but I know I'll see her again. The only real pain I feel is knowing I'll probably never see my gf's nephew again. I mean I'll see him again but he'll be older. He won't really remember me. He was just such a cute little 4 year old boy. He used to tell his mother "I like Uncle Karl more than my own father." I couldn't speak any Korean he could understand and I couldn't understand any of his Korean but we had that "evil uncle" bond. He just knew when he was with me, I would show him 18 ways to make a big mess with tap water.

It's just very hard to place the pain I feel in my heart. I just miss how he'd spazz out with excitement when he'd see me. I miss buying him ice cream. I miss his laughter. This really sucks.

( Jina's nephew )

I'm finally getting a chance to sit down and sort out my photos. Here are my last batch of Trucker Mom and Jae Hoon photos. Sigh.

( huge batch )

( library humor )

You know today I had a McFlurry. It's the first time I had a McFlurry. I'm not even sure when they invented them.

From the feast or famine file: after I signed with the Toronto company a Windsor company made me an offer. Potentially for more money than the Toronto job. And I'd be paying Windsor rents. Hrmph. I gave them a counter offer, $5000 higher and said "if you can swing that, I'll put in my notice at the Toronto job at the end of next week".

Hell, screw rent. I could almost buy a place cash in Windsor. (Of course with today's market in Windsor, don't ever plan on selling...)

The Toronto job has an unusually long probation, 4 months (well, not as bad as another company I was at that I think was 6 months). I figure, however, if a company can turf you at any time without cause during probation, you can turf yourself in those 4 months without a word of explanation either.

I was at funeral tonight and I kept bowing to people. And then at a job interview, I bowed several times to my prospective employer (even though he was a whitey).

 
The second interview was indeed the "he's not an axe murderer" interview, although it was a bit more of grilling than I expected. Long and short of it, I got the job. I start next Monday (day after Mother's Day). It's up near Steeles and Jane. I also signed a lease for an apartment at the Old Mill subway station, literally half a block away. I think the first month until I get settled I'll drive up there then explore taking the Jane 35 bus.

( apartment photos )

This was moderately funny: