::A Geek in Korea::

I really tried hard to come up with a post today that didn’t involve defecation. Honestly, my entire day revolved around it, so I won’t be shy. This post is about shit, since it dominated my day.

Before work, I took Yoshi for his morning walk.  I trot him around hoping he’ll finish his business before we have to put him in the house and go to work. It’s so much easier when you don’t have to come home to a mess. We’re thankfully lucky to have a fairly "regular" dog, but today I walked Yoshi for 45 minutes without any results. I was resigned to cleaning up a mess when I went to work, but luckily didn’t have anything to clean up when I came home. This was a good thing, as I was in no shape to clean up anything after I got home.

At work, I learned a powerful lesson: Man was not meant to subsist on lasagna alone. Someone tell Garfield that after a few meals consisting of nothing but lasagna and possibly some oily laver (kim) as a snack, you’ll get a nasty stomach ache. My first two classes went fine, and I escaped disaster in my third. I took a 15 minute break to buy medicine while someone covered for me. I made a decision to get back into class and finish off the hour. I was feeling pretty good, but when the break between classes rolled by again, I was in the bathroom cursing the person that designed a room with such poor air circulation. I reported in that I’d need a substitute for the rest of the day, and left. Occasionally I approach a state of meditation when riding in a taxi home while sick. Quiet contemplation and a wonder about the nature of the universe. More often than not, it is a panic. "Why are all toilets so far away and will I make it in time?"

I spent the time after work reading, groaning in pain, and generally not wanting to do anything that kept me out of quick reach of a bathroom. My wife came home and made some delicious mushroom soup for me. It was good, but not exactly filling. We both started snacking, and she decided to cook up something we got from her grandmother’s farm: