Lazy Days Become Too Lazy

I am not opposed to your initiative in changing the template. It seems much more interesting now.

So, I just watched the finale of MBLAQ Hello Baby... even though I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I enjoyed SHINee Hello Baby, I still cried at the end, because there were too many goodbyes, and since the kids were older they understood what it meant more than Yoogeun did. And you know how it makes the tears flow to see grown men crying because they have to say goodbye to kids for good.

Plus, I mean, I guess G.O. is pretty awesome in general.

So I recently discovered this band LEDApple. I don't know if you have heard their music before. It is a little different. I mean, they are a band like with a drummer and stuff, only they're all futuristic and their instruments are like, a bit odd. I actually have no idea what they are. They're not with a major label and they're not even that popular but all their music videos have this oddly high-budget feel to them. Like this one. It is also a little creepy but I like it. And then there's this one, which is pretty different. I think they keep changing members. Maybe that's it. I heard that one of their lead vocalists left the band because he had tuberculosis, of all things.

This has been a really long weekend. I wish I had more to do because honestly today has been one lazy day too many. I have a lot of stuff I want to do but I can't do any of it until getting home, like working off some of my substantial debt, and I feel a little detached from the finals frenzy that people seem to be in. None of my important finals are happening until Wednesday. Today I went to go sell back some of my books. As you may recall, I spent close to $300 on textbooks at the beginning of the semester, and when I took back the majority of them today, I was only able to get $20 in return for them. It really made me mad because I was kind of counting on at least $70 or so to go towards paying my tax debt.

So there's that. I think when I get home, I am going to go to Louisburg to apply for summer jobs. I expect that priority will be given to high school students, but I have work experience so maybe I can sell my skills more effectively. Only one way to find out, I suppose. I'm sick of feeling like a hungry money-eating machine with no useful output. Being grown up sucks sometimes.

I have been writing to pass the time. Even though these are lazy days I am incapable of being bored, as you know. I think my roommate probably thinks I'm weird because I spent about four hours last night writing one thing in a notebook. I really don't like typing out my stories usually because it feels creatively stifling. Lately I have felt a little creatively stifled just because I don't know. There are no rules to how creative feelings come and go. Anyway so I wrote out the beginning of this story which I am sure is complete rubbish but it was a good exercise.

Now, I will write some more and maybe study things (like I said, my first real final isn't until Wednesday), and I will also listen to Busker Busker because they just give me so much joy, and joy is good to have on days like this.

For some reason, in a lot of their songs the main singer keeps talking to the drummer, who's the white guy. "Hey, Brad, do you know 막걸리?" "오 ~ 막걸리 좋아요!" I am not sure what the purpose of it is, but it makes me laugh.

-Amy

P.S. Busker Busker has a song called 감기 걸렸어. I felt a strong sense of victory when I knew what it meant right away without having to look up any words. Ah, triumph.

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I changed the template because its time for new beginnings.

Just kidding, I got bored of the backround. We've had it since the beginning.

Also new beginnings is redundant. All beginnings are new. (you're welcome, Angela)

I'm watching You're Beautiful again, and for those of you who don't know what this is, (or don't remember my Shinwoo blogs (search the blog for Shinwoo and you can see my beatimus 'seventeen to one complete victory' poem)), Its a show which the concept of would be hard to explain in just words, so I'll have my gifs help again.

So you start the show and the REAL story starts about an episode in and you're like,

And then you realize, She's not going to get with the guy you want her to get together with, and you're like,

 And then things start to work out and you're like,

 And then they stop working out and you're like,

And then, even though things don't really work out, in the end you're like,

And by that I mean, "You successfully made me feel a very large range of emotions. well done."

Anyway, in other news, we went to a Japanese restaurant last night, and it was pretty totally delicious.

But maybe the best part was that the 20-some year old white people sitting next to me were debating about the differences and similarities between Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Kora, which is the new show.

No I'm joking, the best part was the food because it was 진짜 맛있다.
Also watching those crazy people cook some crazy vegetables.

I'm pretty sure that yesterdays weather is my favorite kind of weather beside totally sunny weather. I know, crazy dark spring thunderstorms and sunny weather are totally different, but there's something about spring thunderstorms that are so cozy and wonderful. I just wanted to stay inside all day and do cool cozy stuff.

and then it stopped raining and we went shopping and it was cool and humid and it smelled like greeness.

On Saturday we did the market and it was a really really pretty day. We sold like a ton of plants. maybe 너무. People continue to make it sounds like 22 dollars for a basket that is beyond beautimus it way too expensive. I have a theory that more people would buy them if they were 25 dollars because everyone has 20 dollar bills from the ATM and they don't like to break a 20 for 2 dollars. I dunno. I hate breaking 20's.

Amy I can't wait until you get home. I will pass the time by learning both Ring Ding Dong and Replay, (did I mention I love SHINee?), and then we can dance them together.

We can also sing a song together. Something beautiful and english, maybe, but we should also learn Cotton Candy (maybe we need a kazoo or a ukelele.) and My Heaven.

-Michelle

You Don't Have to Read This Blog Post Since It's The Weekend

I have decided that there are few things as enjoyable as having a free morning to sit by a window while a storm rumbles outside, listening to my smooth playlist and drinking tea.

Here's how I feel about TOP's singing voice: I don't actually have any words for it, because it is just so great.

I have been researching count words in Korean lately. You may not have encountered this yet, but in Korean if you're telling someone a quantity, you usually can't just say "I have three cats" or "I'd like five tomatoes". You have to also add a count word, and the count words are different depending on what item you're counting. English doesn't usually have an equivalent, but in some cases we do say things like "300 head of cattle" and "five pieces of candy" where "head" and "pieces" are count words. Here's an example:

난 고양이 3마리 있어 - I have three cats

고양이 is cat. Since the quantity is stated right afterwards, no plural is needed (I love this). In this case, 마리 is the count word. It basically means "amount of animals". So if you were to translate it more literally, it would say "I have three animals that are cats".

I thought it was pretty confusing at first since it means a whole new set of words for me to learn just to be able to state a quantity, but actually it makes pretty good sense and it eliminates the uncertainty of where to put the number since count words always come after the noun they're modifying.

5분 나를 인사했습니다 - Five people greeted me

Here, you don't even have to say "people", since 분 is a count word specifically for people. 명 is also a people count word, and it's used more often, but it's less polite and you know how I feel about being polite in Korean (I am terrified of doing anything else).

So now you know. But there are also weird count words for random things that I will probably never have cause to remember, like 통, which is for watermelons, and 자루, which is for anything with a long handle like shovels, swords, and frying pans.

Sometimes, Korean is hard, especially when it has concepts that English doesn't have. But then I remember how Korean fascinates me more than most of my other subjects put together, even though it isn't very applicable in my foreseeable future.

I feel better about moving now that I was able to pack up all my books. I didn't have a box, so I used the next best thing, which was a double-layer brown paper bag just big enough to fit them all. I am not looking forward to carrying it down to my car. I'll wait till it stops raining.

-Amy

Fergilicious

I listened to the Black Eyed Peas for the first time in a while. I remembered again why I don't really like their music that much (except for Hands Up. I still like that song). I guess the whole "I'm awesome and better than you (in the club)" lyric treadmill gets old after a while.

Then I listened to some Kanye West. He is slightly more interesting, but after listening to Gold Digger I figured he didn't have many other songs with the same fun factor.

Then I listened to Chris Brown, and remembered how much I like Chris Brown. Even though it feels morally turpitudal to admit that I like the music of a guy who has a pretty bad rep and seems to be an all-around scoundrel, I feel like it's similar to liking the music of people who were obviously tripping when they wrote their songs - flawed or not, they're still talented. It's a human condition.

Yesterday I started packing for getting out of here. At first I thought the deep-cleaning after packing was going to stress me out the most, but I'm quickly realizing that I have accumulated a volume of stuff that, while hardly comparable to the amount of stuff that my roommate has to deal with, is kind of more than I can handle. I packed up two big containers of clothes and stuff yesterday and it seems like I didn't even make a dent in my possessions. How did I end up with so much junk?! I also have books, which if you've ever moved/helped someone move, you know are really hard to deal with. I mean, you can just pack them up in a box, but if they're different sizes it's hard to pack them efficiently, and then they're really heavy. And I don't have a box to pack them in, so I will probably just tote them downstairs loose and pile them in the back of my car in a haphazard manner. Other things that are hard to pack are shoes and appliances, because no matter what you do they will always take up more space than they should.

These are the kinds of things you think about when you move. Is this what it's like to be grown up?! If so, I'm not a huge fan of growing up.

Your post was pretty cool. The part I liked best was the part about the hanok. I'm pretty sure that there is no place in the world with traditional houses as cool as the hanok, not even the places with castles. After all, castles are pretty inconvenient on the whole. Everything about hanoks makes sense.

I think you would like traditional Korean food. You like spicy things and as far as I know you don't mind seafood. Those are pretty much the only things most people have a problem with about Korean food. When I had bulgogi it was pretty much like something Dad would make on a Saturday night except with a slightly different set of spices. The kimchi was just divine, even though I'm pretty sure what I had wasn't nearly as spicy as it's usually made. Seaweed doesn't taste like anything, so no worries there.

Just let's avoid baby octopus. I don't think I could ever handle baby octopus.

I think the issue isn't that Taemin is wearing a GD&TOP shirt, but that he's wearing a shirt with the Playboy bunny on it. I refuse to believe that that isn't a Playboy bunny. It is obviously a Playboy bunny. It is ridiculous for anyone to suggest otherwise.

-Amy

Why I want to go to Korea

Since the blog has been a lot of this

 and this,

lately, and I'm thinking that people

(wait wait, wait wait. Amy. Taemin is Wearing a GD&TOP shirt in that gif. That or....)

May have forgotten or never known why I really want to be an exchange student in Korea.

Its not (mostly) because I like this guy,

 Or this show.

Yes, yes, the reason I wanted to learn Korean in the beginning was so I could watch Lee Min Ho without subtitles (and Amy, I still hate subtitles), but that's evolved, somewhat. I don't want to go to Korea just because of the pop culture. The pop culture of a country says little about the country itself, and I am very aware of that.

When I started to learn about the culture itself I was really fascinated because I've never learned much about a culture that wasn't very westernized, or was so old. I mean I know that there are a lot of old countries, its just Korea was the first one I really learned about.

I like they're manners and their traditional clothing and houses, and that has a lot to do with why I want to go, so I'll tell about all that stuff:

One of the first things that became apparent to me was that they're very respectful of older people. You add a respectful ending to words if you're speaking to someone older than you or a stranger.

That's not really a thing in America, and I think its cool that they are respectful to older people because the know that f you're older you're wiser and more mature, whereas in America we have like a taboo on aging, which really sucks, cause its not like you can stop it or anything.

When you walk into a house, you take off your shoes.

Why don't we do that here? Its like when we buy food instead of making it even though its less-healthy AND more expensive. We'd rather vacuum than take our shoes off, even though its less work and the house gets less dirty, and the carpet doesn't get stained, and you're more comfortable, and it makes the house seem like more of a sacred place.

Korean traditional houses are called Hanok.

And something like this on the inside.

The deal is its like a long corridor that is almost a full square, and is attached at one side by a big wooden door. Its something like its own little walled city.

The corridor, since it creates a full square-like shape, makes a nice quart yard in the middle. where trees grow and they have whatever in there. Maybe some porches and a garden or something.

Then, inside of the corridor, are all of the rooms. They're mostly all attached, but are also accessible from the quart yard.

Traditionally, Koreans would sleep on the floor on little mats because the house was heated from a furnace which expelled smoke and heat via a crawlspace, so obviously the floor was warmer than a bed and mattress would have been. This may also be the reason they take their shoes off when entering a house.

Korean traditional dress is about the cutest thing I've ever seen,

It makes me kind of sad that America doesn't have anything like this that they can take pride in. And even if we do have anything like that, its really weird to wear it. No one wears pilgrim outfits ever. And if they do...
Some people wear civil war clothes, and if they do...

"I don't always wear Civil War clothes, but when I do...I'm in a re-enactment and I'm playing a confederate and its in a re-enactment of one of the battles that the confederates win so I get to shoot some yankees."

I haven't tried much of Korean food and I don't know if I would like it, but it looks DELICIOUS.

They eat with lots of sidedishes, so there's lots of variety. Usually you have your bowl of rice and then you put whatever you want on it.

Another thing that I think is really cool about Korea is when you become good friends with someone, if they're younger than you, they can call you Unnie if your both girls, Hyung if you're both boys, Noona if they're a boy and you're a girl, or Oppa, if you're a boy and shes a girl. The essentially mean older brother and older sister. Like I would call Amy Unnie. I like this because its respectful and yet really shows how close you are. I really like nicknames and stuff, so I think its cool that in their culture you call someone something other than their name.

And that's why I want to go to Korea.

Also because, 

Yea fangurl.

Also Amy I logged into your Youtube and liked the 12 in 1 EXO teaser video.

You're welcome.

-Michelle

One of Those Days

Today has been one of those days. You know, one of those days where, in the span of about 17 hours of wakeness, you question your existence mainly because:

1. At one point I wasn't hungry at the time I was supposed to be, so I started to think maybe I have a disease.
2. At another point I didn't have any energy and I hoped that it wouldn't last forever.
3. I tried to dance but I wasn't feelin' it, so then I thought, "I'm a horrible dancer, why am I so dumb? and untalented? WHY DO I LIVE!" (I loved the chonny gif, by the way. "Thats it. I'm just gonna be a garbage man.")

And then by the end of the day I realized that I'd gone from this

 to this,

About seventeen times.

And then I was sad because I was on the computer a lot and I couldn't seem to get happy off the computer, and I thought, "maybe I'll never be happy off the computer ever again."

Which really scared me. And then I realized, "I'm a teenager. This is supposed to happen every day, right?"

PFFT

Teenagerism, eat it!

All I have to say is I'd much rather be happy when I want to be happy and same with being hungry, having energy, and I wish I could just be a good dancer all the time.

Someday, Kai. Someday.

I pretty much wish I could just be inspired.....24/7.

Also its really hard to be inspired when you're hot. and our parents have recently decided, "no no no no no we will not turn on the air conditioner under any circumstances in April.", even though we live in Missouri and saying something like that is like say, "The temperature will stay the same all week."

OK well now that the mostly depressing part is over, time to tell you about all the other interesting stuff that happened today! Actually, nothing happened today except for what is happening right now, which is, enrolling in JCCC.

UGH. As inspired as I want to feel, I think I'm just now realizing...yeah....Juco is not going to make me love school or anything.

So anyway I'm enrolling for English, Sign Language, and.....Biology.

I'm also going to enroll for math too. Yippie, I'm so super excited to do that.


Being grown up isn't cool. It just hard and kind of aggravating.

But Y Si Fuera Ella by SHINee is helping. This song is beautiper.

I wrote a list of things to do when you're depressed and uninspired, and then I realized that they all had to do with doing something and listening to music or hanging out with awesome people....

I know I'll wake up tomorrow and be like, 

and then do some dancing and totally own.


Good thing that's how it works, or I might just bury myself into a hole of shame and sadness.

-Michelle

My Crippling Social Anxiety

Here is the thing about my social anxiety: it is pretty ridiculous. I don't know if this is true of anyone else, but I don't actually get seriously anxious until after the social interaction happens. I have this habit of obsessively thinking over conversations and remembering everything I said that could be construed as awkward and dumb (and you of all people know that I can have lots of dumb moments). And while this whole anxiety thing is happening, there's a more rational part of my brain that is telling me that I am ridiculous and there's no reason I should worry about past conversations because the other person probably doesn't care that much if I had a brain fart or moved my hands too much.

But then I think about all the brain farts I had and all the weird and unrelated hand movements I made, and feel deflated.

In other, rational news, though, I once again met up with my conversation partner and she brought one of her friends with her, as I have told you, who was pretty awesome. I'm finding that every Korean male I meet here has already been in the military. I get the feeling, and you may confirm this, that people who have been in the military tend to be more dynamic people in general. Something about character development. Anyway, even though I am incredibly nervous in these kinds of social situations, I had a grand time and didn't choke on my own spit or anything (these things have happened in the past).

They also told me to spell my name 에이미 instead of 애미 for reasons that are not readily evident to me at the moment, but I will go with what they said because they're probably the experts.

Yesterday, on the spur of the moment when I found myself in possession of $6 without any pressing costs to cover, I decided to go watch The Cabin in the Woods. As an admirer of Joss Whedon, I have wanted to watch this movie from the moment I saw the trailers a few months ago, even though they made it look like it was just another lame horror movie about stupid kids getting hacked to pieces in the woods.

Well it wasn't a normal. In fact, it was pretty messed up, and premise was so opposite to what I was expecting that I spent a lot of the movie feeling a strange sense of "what... what just happened? And why?!"

It was a riotously grand time. I've found that attending movies alone sometimes is pretty fun.

Okay, it's later now and I just received a package of delicious goodies to tide me over through the valley of death that is finals week.

The truth is that finals week isn't a valley of death. The truth is that finals week is pretty cushy because even with the extra studying, there's a lot of time since there aren't any classes and usually never more than one final per day.

But, the package of goodies is still endlessly appreciated, so thanks, Mom. I ate some of the Mike & Ikes in there and was transported to joyful days of yore.

So you know that thing I have about not wanting to do things unless I've had time to mentally prepare for them? Well as evidenced from my midnight movie run last night, that is not always true. But I only have about a half-pint of spontaneity in me at any given time, and right now it's all gone, which is why I'm not a huge fan of the way people have been bursting into my room for the last half an hour insisting that I attend some school-sponsored bash called "Fun Before Finals". I wouldn't even mind much, except I'm bad at parties. I'm bad at spontaneity and bad at parties. What am I good at then, you ask? Well. I am good at being a snooty prude. Just ask anyone.

In Which I Display Emotions Through Gifs...Again.

Everyone who is not Amy will not understand this, so, ignore, if you please.

So I just finished City Hunter for the second time,

My reaction to finishing City Hunter the first time:

(I'm the blonde one, Amy's the brown haired one.)

 And here's my reactions to finishing it the second time.

First is the preparation. "Yeah, I am not going to be effected by this as much as I was the first time. Bring it."

And then it starts happening and you're like, 

"mmmm that....."

And then you're like, 

But then you think about it some more, and you're like,

Yup. Just as bad as it was the first time.

-Michelle

In Which I Take a Test and Get a Colossal Headache

Remedial math, remedial math,

the more I do you,

the more I'm wrath.

Remedial math, remedial math,

you let me go,

them pluck me back.

remedial math, remedial math,

When I do your problems, its sucks.

You send me into spiraling mucks.

The more I see of you,

the more I am mad.

The more you're around,

the more troubles abound.

Remedial math, remedial math.

Ta-da. There it is. I hope that round aboutly gave you the news that I totally failed the placement test. Apparently they gave me the wrong test anyway, but it was still horrible. Being homeschooled  I've never really had to endure the humiliation of being told that you failed by thirty six points, by someone who is not your mom. The worst part of this whole thing would be having to actually be in a class that pretty much said, "Michelle has taken Algebra one and two, but she is bad at testing so she had to spend a year and hundreds of dollars paying for it."

So I'm going to study and take the test again, because I don't want to take two creditless classes, and I don't want my brain to spill out of my ears from taking pre-algebra....again. I can only imagine the sort of bored and un-inspired and horrible person I would become if it came to that.

On another note, while I was walking to the school, I saw three white kids, three black kids and literally eleven Asans.

Usually I stay away from saying anything that could be interpreted as even close to racest, but I have to comment about this: There are so many Asians. 

So anyway, I saw all these people and I was like, "This place seems pretty chill." There was some group kids on the hill and one of them looked JUST like David So 

("I'm a little French, buddy, a little Irish, a little Scottish." to which David So says, "You just three types of vanilla.")

And he was playing guitar and singing some songs. His voice was very loud and very beautiful. And then we walked past some kids that were speaking, THATS RIGHT, Korean.

Sometimes its hard for me to tell if they're speaking Korean or not, because if they say a word like "nehga" (I), I'm pretty sure that's also a word in Japanese. They didn't look Korean though, and I'm pretty sure it was Korean anyway because my Korean senses were tingling. Just kiddng...kind of.

Here's how I tell the difference between Asian languages:

Chinese: If its really fast and sounds kind of like mumbling and is so incredibly fast that you really can't believe they're saying words, its Chinese.

Vietnamese: If it sounds like they're not saying many different words but lots of different tones and words that sound like "hay" every other word, its Vietnamese.

Thai: If it sounds like a tonal language but it isn't as incredibly fast as it could be (Chinese) and there are more "ow"s "oh"s and "wha"s, than its probably Thai.

The only way I can tell Japanese and Korean apart is because I know some words in Korean, and they're pretty easy to identify.

I'm hoping to meet some cool Koreans when I got to this school and get them to tell me how to speak Korean. Yeah buddy!

-Michelle

P.S. I logged onto your youtube again and watched five incredibly random videos just to throw you off.

P.P.S. Today I had shrimp made by my mother for the first time in my entire life.

In Which I Share Funny Pictures

because you really wouldn't believe how tired I am right now.

Since we're on a gif craze, its only appropriate that I add a few.

Also, I had to explain things like gifs, hashtags, trending topics, and memes to mom today. It took a while but I think she gets it, so thats another reason to have a gif or two.

This is what I feel like/do when its night time and I have to turn of the light in the basement.

When people say me and Amy look the same

How I do my hair after I get out of the shower.

Five people said they don't like my hair and I look like a boy.

How I feel when someone says, "No don't get up," right as/after I get up.

How I feel right now. So enthused.

-Michelle

Bits and Pieces

I came to the music building to practice some piano and singing and stuff, but I was disrupted by the rehearsal for a fraternity concert that's starting in fifteen minutes. The problem with the proletariat practice rooms is that they aren't soundproof so you can hear everything that's going on in Hart Recital Hall. I have decided that the jazz big band and barbershop quartet sound is to my liking, and I think I will attend this concert, just because it's Saturday afternoon and I can do whatever I darn well want to.

I decided to make a talent thing and upload it to the Touch Korea place just for funsies. The problem is that I don't have very performable talents, so it is going to be pretty boring. But what's a girl to do? I can't just pass up an opportunity like this.

Later - I went to see the concert. It was pretty fun. It was put on by a music fraternity, and they were pretty cool. I got a little video, maybe I'll show you it sometime.

Today is one of those days that's good. I woke up this morning and realized that I didn't have anything pressing to do. That doesn't happen to me very often so it was kind of exciting. I drank all kinds of coffee and drew some things and did some Korean and rocked out to some BAP and planned my trip to the music building. So far I have been here for four hours, all filled with good times. One of my problems is that I used up my camera's battery filming the jazz business, and you know how long it takes to charge that thing even a tiny bit. I have to pass the time somehow.

It is 5:15 now. There is some kind of jazz funk going on now. It's fun to listen to but it is throwing off my groove. Bigtime.

Totes gonna go edit this video. I will leave you with this:

because I heard you like 2PM.

For My Parents and Anyone Else Who....

Cares enough to take time out of their day to come here and read about how Michelle can't enter a contest without thinking shes going to win.

Its true. I'm really not the kind of person to enter a contest and be like, "Now I'll forget about this so its nbd. If I win is "ehh" if I lose its also "ehh.""

But anyway, its necessary for me to gather supporters in order to win, and in order to gather supporters, I must explain all the things.

So here's the story:
There's this band called 2PM. Here is a picture of their faces.

 Here is a picture of their bodies.

Now you know what they look like. And not that you could really be bothered, but their names are (in order of the first picture, left to right) Taec, Nichkhun, Chansung, Junho, Junsu, and Wooyoung.

They sing songs like this. Acrobatics like this, have fun like this, advertise like this, and make behind the scenes videos like this (subtitles shown by pressing the CC in the bottom right corner of the video).

They're awesome.

And now you know.

There is also another band called miss A. This is what they look like.

Their names are Suzy, Min, Jia and Fei. Suzy sings songs like this on shows like this with people from 2PM.

Together, miss A sings songs like this.

Well, together with Touch Korea, a website made for the sole purpose of getting people to go to Korea, 2PM and miss A are putting on a contest where you submit a video talking about how Korea has impacted or life, or a video with you doing something pertaining to K-pop, and after a certain amount of days they pick 21 videos with the most views, and then they decide from there. And the person who wins goes to Korea and spends a week with said bands and does who knows what. So, I submitted two videos.

The first one is me talking about Korea and how its "changed my life" or something.
The second one is a dance cover of 2PMs first single "10 points out of 10". (original dance version here)

The way you can help is by viewing the videos. Thats all you have to do. Unless you want to be a super awesome relative/friend and view them again...again and again and again and again. and then tell your friends and your friends friends and your grandmas cousin and your nieces parents....

and then I will get to go to Korea and have the time of my life and it will be TOTALLY AWESOME.

That is all. Now view, with joy.

I Have a Couple Free Hours

I am here to tell you a boring story that completely made my week when my week was already made.

The reason my week was already made, as you know, is because of the conversation I got to have with Yoonsun yesterday afternoon in which I was nervous and giggly and she was absolutely wonderful. And then she kindly invited me to visit her this weekend so she can cook a fully traditional Korean meal for me. Not even kidding, probably the best interaction I've had with a person since I got here.

Anyway, the other thing that completely made my week began with me watching this music video. I have heard a little bit about Busker Busker but I actually thought they were an American band who was making it big in Korea because of the two Korean members. But it is not so. Anyway, the music video brought joy to my heart. Sometimes there are songs, and you may not relate to this at all, that I don't think are particularly catchy or musically innovative or whatever, but I still love them to death because they're happy, calming, and they make me feel a little more joyful after listening to them. I feel that way about Busker Busker. I also feel that way about CN Blue. They are pretty similar after all, since they're both bands that started on their own with a group of friends and weren't manufactured by a huge entertainment corporation. I can respect that.

But the thing that really made my day was when I looked up Busker Busker because I wanted to see what a white guy was doing in a Korean band (has this ever happened before?), and it turns out that the two Korean guys were buddies at university, and they knew the white guy because he was also at their university... as an English professor.

...I'm ready to go!

Now that I know these things are possible, and that at least one English teacher was successful in life, I am happy.

Let's do a dance cover! ...oh wait.

Other than these things, life is pretty uneventful. I have said before that I am ready for this semester to be over. It is still true - indeed, it is about three times as true as it was when I last said it (Sunday). I have mixed feelings too though, because honestly I'm not the biggest fan of summer either. I want to get a summer job so I don't feel like a complete vegetable for three months. Like I've said, being a complete vegetable is only fun for the first couple of hours. Then it's just depressing.

-Amy

Starbucks Rambles

Well, Amy, as you know, I'm sitting in Starbucks right now. Its really not my favorite thing. In fact, I don't really like it all. I'm sure that when I was younger, I would have thought that its so super cool to go to starbucks by myself with a computer and a bunch of time. Well, let me tell you something: its lonely and also kind of uncomfortable. The things I do to go to Grandview Assembly. I probably won't keep this. Plus, being gone three evenings a week really messes with my schedule (dance dance dance). But seriously, though, I'm dances at least two hours every day this week. Super intense. But I still can't do splits.

I'm listening to Super Junior as loud as I can to block out the Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk. Thats what its called, right? Who's it by? I don't remember. Its not that I don't like that song, but I think that I accidently trained my brain to turn off when I listen to smooth music, because I go to bed with smooth music like every night.

But No Other by Super Junior was like the fifth K-pop song  heard. I remember thinking, "Are they singing to each other?" Oh my goodness, I was such a naive little tot. Just because there isn't a girl in the video doesn't mean they're singing to each other. Obv. I was so American. Ha.

I feel bad because this is the second time I've come to Starbucks and I haven't bought anything. But I have resolve about saving money. For the first time ever. That's why I went to Taco Bell instead of that Chinese places. I'm pretty sure it was half as expensive and I enjoyed myself just as much. There are a few things that I love as much as I love Chinese style chicken, and one of them is American style Mexican food.

Oh, I forgot to tell you when I called you, I learned the Winters Child song that Suzy sings to Taec (remembering their names in the show is too hard, especially when they have more than one.) Its super pretty, and I will sing it for someone whose birthday is in the winter. Maybe you. I know, your birthday is in the middle of fall, but winter, fall, same difference.

I learned the chorus dance to Sorry Sorry. I don't remember if I told you that, but I'm pretty sure that its the funnest dance I've ever learned. Plus its super applicable. Never apologizing to someone without dancing again!

I'm pretty sure Mama, by EXO-K is like my favorite song right now. It's so awesome and epic.

I watched a bunch of videos of Park Bom from her show and she is the most adorable. "The most adorable." is not grammatically correct, but I don't care about that right now. What I mean by "the most adorable." is that out of all of the things in the world, she is the most adorable. I'm all for taking out most of the words in the sentence and then making people guess at what I mean.

I've also listened to Winters Child about a million times. Mainly because Suzy's voice is amazing and she says "happy birsday".

Today's Korean word is "괜찮아요" it means Alright, or Ok. You can use it as a sentence, like, "괜찮아요?" = "Are you Ok?" "괜찮아요." = "I'm ok."

-Michelle

They said I could become anything....

So I became...Zelo.

Just kidding. Heres how it happened, "Michelle since your hair is the right length and color, you should try the Zelo thing."

So I did. First it looked like a bangs-only-perm. But then I worked it.

For those of you who are not aware, Zelo is a 15 or 16 year old rapper from the band BAP. He's one of those people who's annoyingly talented, young, and tall. Like me. (Cockiness is the key to quick success, as I say)

Way to copy like a boss, Michelle. Like a 사장님. Bet you've never heard that one before! ah HA!

Anyway, Amy, today I feel like poo but I danced for an hour anyway because I had that horrible line from Dream High stuck in my head:
"I've worked hard while you were gone. All of my toenails fell off...what was it? four times."
Talk about determination. That's what I want to have. I mean, I don't necessarily want my toenails to fall off, but I'm not really doing that kind of dancing anyway, so that'd be really difficult anyway.

I finished Dream High, by the way, Amers. (They said there is a seventeenth episode "special" but I think it might just be an 'in between seasons one and two' thing that is more of an introduction rather than a conclusion.) It was so awesome. SO. AWESOME.

Also, I wanted to share this video not only because I just realized that both the song and dance are awesome (as usual, SHINee. As usual), but Taemin has both a singing part AND a dancing part. Legit, right? Yeah. But my favorite part (beside Minho's rapping, Taemins scarf and (seriously though) the length of his hair) is Taemin at 1:21-1:23. He always has these weird unexpected two second things he does that I have to watch over and over and over again (you remember Lucifer. Uh huh.)

Also you should look up the song Marshmallow by IU, its super cute.

Its late, so I leave you with possibly the cutest picture...ever.

IU and Jason Doll. So cyute.

PS. That actually reminds me, I saw a picture of IU doing major-surprised-face and the picture said, "IU for real?" I lawld.

-Michelle