Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thursday Evening Drears

So, college. It's a big deal. For you, I mean. It wasn't a very big deal for me. But since you're my little sister, it's a big deal. If you want I can take you around the campus and show you where things are, like the writing center and the math lab and the best places to go if you want to sit and enjoy the academic vista or just go to sleep for a while (there are an abundance of comfortable nooks and crannies in which to chill between classes). But if Nicole's still going there she can probably show you around too. Anyway, whatever works. It's a pretty cool school. I have to make sure you don't take it for granted because if you go to a four-year university there's a 100% chance that it won't be as slick as JCCC is.

It is pretty cool that you have a resolution to save money. In the distant past, I also saved money. Those were good times. I really didn't appreciate those times. But they were good. Though I have always remembered that for school, forever ago, I read this little kid's history book about Benjamin Franklin, you know the kind that takes a lot of creative liberties with the lives of the forefathers, and how when he was growing up his father nurtured his young mind by inviting intellectuals to dinner every week or whatever, and once there was a man they had over for dinner who had once been very poor, and was now very rich, and he said to little Benjamin Franklin, "If you are poor, save every penny you have, and you will become rich." I don't know, I just always remembered that.

If there's one thing I have a lot of, it's pennies. And nickels. I use all my quarters for laundry, and all my dines for printing, which leaves an almost completely useless collection of pennies and nickels in my change jar. I take the John Green stance on currency so small it's become obsolete: get rid of it altogether, and enjoy convenient cash-paying experiences once again.

I didn't finish that show. I recently started watching two shows that just started airing, King 2 Hearts (the one with Seunggi) which is a political romance and pretty interesting all around, and Rooftop Prince (the one with the guy from JYJ), which involves time travel and is as riotously fun as it is silly. They are both quite good and have a lot of things I like about kdramas in general. Rooftop Prince has that awesome thing that I know you love: the entourage of non-love interest guys who are basically the most awesome brofriends ever. Think Kim Joon and Kim Bum only funnier and (possibly) better looking. Except one of them is younger than me, which I find strange.

Have you heard of Sungkyunkwan Scandal? I keep hearing about it because it has that same guy from JYJ in it and also Park Min Young. Apparently she's disguised as a guy for a while in it? I just don't understand how some casting director looked at Park Min Young and said, "yeah, we could definitely make her look like a guy." She's like the cutest and most petite person ever, plus I'd be surprised if she's any more than five feet tall. If she was going to try being a guy, it would have to be a fourteen-year-old boy. Anyway, I've heard it's good so maybe I'll think about it when I have the time and my list of Dramas I'm Watching has thinned.

So you know that BB song called Big Boy, and how there's this part where TOP yells something in English that I couldn't figure out for months? Well I only just realized that he's yelling "We need a club banger", whatever that means. It doesn't sound like club banger, anyway. It sounds more like "purpringle", which is altogether more entertaining.

-Amy

P.S. The president's gardener is hitting golf balls around the back garden again. It's all very surreal, especially since he possesses such a whimsical bramble of grey hair.

P.P.S. My word of the day is 약속, because it is pretty versatile. It means "promise", and both a verb and a noun, but it can also mean engagement or appointment, which probably makes appointments a little more sacred I should think. Anyway, it's a good word, you should notice it because they use it a lot in songs and dramas. It's just one of those words.

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