Time soon for the first real vacation I've had since I've been here. I'm off to Busan, Russ, the teacher who left in June said it was a really nice place, and one of the Korean teachers is from there, so worst-case, I'm not expecting it to be too bad. The bus ride is reportedly kind of long, and hopefully nothing will have been too much affected by the rain and miscellanious crap that has plagued this July, weather-wise. Mostly, of course, I want to get there because that's where Dad was during the Korean War, and hopefully a few pictures of the place (and me, I hope,) will do something to make him happier. And, to make him realize, in his most sadly mind-addled moments, which I'm told still come every so often, that I'm not fighting, I'm not in danger, and that I love and respect him, despite what has ever happened in our life-clashes. At any rate, the rain continues, abated, somewhat, but we'll see what happens by the time I go on vacation.
I don't have school, so I'm in a PC-bang today; odd places these are. Not just kids playing games, although they are certainly in here, housewife types, the guy next to me is obviously substantially older than me, albeit he's checking his email and the news. And on the subject of a couple of days ago, about songs on the "mental playlist," I forgot about a big one; Don Henley's "Learn to be Still," which I suppose inevitably, I am, and having to, somewhat unassisted, the efficacy of Strattera being what it is. (Which is to say, it's no real help except for the fact that I CAN actually sit and read a book or get things done. There's as many or more issues that this stuff DOESN'T help with. Oh well.) And the one thing I'll say for blogging, and similar kinds of mental cataloging, (I'm still doing my big journal with pencil and paper, all written by hand--if the Koreans ever found out I was doing something that DIDN'T require a computer, I'd probably be exiled instantly. Well, maybe not, but still....) it really does help me keep my head clear. And what comes of this when I'm all done? Probably more mental output, a book or something. It's a vicious cycle.