this kind of dirty just don't wash off

the tittle of this blog was going to be "i finally whored myself out" but i realized as i was talking to a friend last night that whores get paid... i did it for free. i'm like that person who sleeps with anybody to validate theirself, and never stops to wonder why nobody ever calls them back b/c they are already onto sleeping with the next person to make theirself feel better. sigh, my boss (actually my director asked me for the principal b/c i guess the principal is still mad at me for bringing up the fact that she isn't paying me for 27 teaching blocks a month (i teach for about 55 minutes a day for free(which i guess makes me even more of a slut))) ask me to write a 110-150 word piece to help recruit new teachers. i said yes because i like being helpful, but man, while i was writing it i kept saying to myself "man, i can't say that!!! oh shit, that's not true..." so i had to walk that fine line of telling the truth and not making this seem like YBM Gangnam is crappy place to work, trying to make faults look like selling points. i came up with lines like "the administration and parents take an active interest in the daily happenings of class" "the administration is open to receiving concerns that arise on the job and at home" and my favorite "with 5 months left on my contract, I find myself wanting to stay in South Korea for at least another year". what all these really said were a) parents will bitch when kids don't learn something well enough and also bitch when you leave the syllabus to spend more time on something they are having a hard time with, b) yes, you can go and talk to administrators about problems kids are having in class, problems with your contract not being fulfilled, and problems with the housing they provide you, and they will politely listen to you-- just don't expect anything to actually happen, and c)yes i want to stay in korea for another year, but i mention nothing about wanting to stay with YBM or even in seoul.
please, god, if they use my letter to try to lure some sap into this farce of a school, please let him/her be able to read between the lines and take none of what i say for granted. and please, people, if you see a letter entitled "dear prospective teachers" with the above lines in it and signed "sincerely, luke reschly"- politely finish your interview, stand up, put on your coat, flip them the biggest bird you can while shouting "suck on that" and run.
sincerely,
luke reschly

I don't care if this makes me king dork

i am fucking proud of this, and yes, i know it's ever so nerdy to post a chess game but damn it, i am proud of this game. it's just the way he fell apart at the end!!! moves 8-10 are where he fucked up (the trade left him with doubled pawns(the bad kind)), just a little wrong move that i sat on and sat on and sat on till he just came apart at the seems-- I loved evey minute of it.
[Date "2007.11.15"]
[Round ""]
[White "luke"]
[Black "Seb"]
[TimeControl "1800"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "oft"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 h6
4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.e3 Be7 6.Nc3 Bb4
7.a3 Ba5 8.b4 Bb6 9.Na4 Nc6
10.Nxb6 axb6 11.c3 Ne7 12.Bd3 Nd5
13.Qd2 c5 14.O-O h5 15.Be4 Ra6
16.Bxd5 exd5 17.Rfe1 O-O 18.e4 cxb4
19.cxb4 g5 20.Qxg5+ Qg7 21.Qxd5 d6
22.Qxh5 Bg4 23.Qg5 Qxg5 24.Nxg5 Rc8
25.Re3 f6 26.Nf3 Rc2 27.h3 Bd7
28.Ne1 Rb2 29.Nd3 Rb3 30.Nf4 Rxe3
31.fxe3 Ra8 32.Nd5 Kg7 33.Nxb6 Rg8
34.Nxd7 Kf7 35.Rf1 Rg6 36.e5 dxe5
37.Nxe5+ Kg7 38.Nxg6 Kxg6 39.Rd1 Kf7
40.d5 Ke7 41.d6+ Kd7 42.h4 f5
43.h5 f4 44.exf4 b6 45.h6 Kc6
46.h7 Kb5 47.h8=Q Ka4 48.Qc3 Kb5
49.Rd5+ Ka6 50.b5+ Ka7 51.Qc7+ Ka8
52.Qf7 Kb8 53.Rh5 Kc8 54.Rh8# 1-0

god bless me, god bless me all

ugh... 5 am

so it's like this: i was going to read from my book last night at around 9 or 10, i don't actually remember. i do remember laying in bed and having the thought 'gee, this is kinda cozy'.... then midnight. i had fallen asleep only to wake up at my normal bed time. ok, so i wasn't going to go out last night (it's a week night and i've become terribly boring in my old age)or even do anything interesting but it still feels like i wasted yesterday- like somehow those two hours were the ones that i was going to start writing a book... well guess what? i'm writing right now and it ain't literature and i can't sell it, so boo to that idea. nope, my problem was that i knew this was going to happen as i went back to sleep at midnight... awake at 5 in the morning with nothing to do. not that i had anything to do last night, but being awake and not writing my book last night seemed like a better use of my time than being awake not writing my book right now... so i guess i'll use this time to complain about random stuff:
liiikkke.... hmmm, well how about my laptop? i guess a problem with the processor on my model gets very hot and transfers the heat to the case which melts the glue that holds the rubber stoppers on the bottom of my computer. so now it feels like i'm typing on something that is ice skating.
i'm starting to get the feeling that a TEFL certificate is area specific- i can't imagine that it would be, as it requires no knowledge of a second language, but.... as i was looking up various TEFL camps yesterday, they kept saying once you take this camp you'll be able to teach in madrid or barcelona, or once you take this camp you'll be able to teach in phuket or anywhere else in thailand. shit, i don't even know if i want to spend another year doing this sort of thing... then again getting the TEFL is exactly the sort of thing that would get my a nice cushy job back in the west. i guess i could deal with 2000 euros and all the italian women i could ever want...or spanish women... oh! or german women (i like the beer frau outfit, it's sexy to have a busty girl bring you lots of beer(in a meta sort of way, german girls, take no offence that i think my imaginary readers need to be told how german girls could be hot, but i assume they just get that italian and spanish woman are hot))
i am not using my time to email someone at ku to let them know i want to give them MORE money so i can take some independent study classes while i'm here so i can apply for Teach Across America when i get back to the states and actually have a chance of getting accepted. 18,000 people applied last year and only 3,000 weere accepted, and lets face it, i kinda joked my way through college. my only solace comes from the idea that most of these applicants just have to be english majors who realized (just as i have) that nobody wants to give you a job just because you have an opinion on moby dick and the dubliners. i'll bet a fair number of the 18,000 were philosophy majors as well. i mean i knew i was committing career suicide when i switched from chemistry to creative writing, but still...
i got more but then i wouldn't have anything to write about later...
sucka!