The weekend and the morning that followed it
I woke Friday morning feeling like hell. Through the night, I'd been waking every hour or so to expel the mucus that was cascading down the back of my throat. This has happened before and after waiting a week to see if it would go away, I got a sinus infection. The local doctor's office was filled with high school students getting their physicals, so I went to the one over in Gongdan, the University hospital where a friend works. Though I didn't see him, I did see the ear doctor pull out a marble's worth of wax out of my right ear. A present from my last week in the pool. I got an idiotproof strip of medicine packets with who-knows-what inside and had to run to work. (Sorry, Greg it took them a little while to dig the shit out of my ears, I didn't even have time to ride over and say I didn't have time. If you had a cellphone . . . )
I fell asleep at work repeatedly. When I got home I fell asleep in front of ROK beating Bosnia.
Despite feeling like it was a bad idea, I went to Seoul the next day. And it paid off handsomely. At Seoul Racecourse Park, I won a cool 900W. I was a high roller, hobbling around with a bad foot and nasty cough, wearing a shirt fit for the tracks, my chest hair protruding from the neck, suggestive of what lurked below. I put 2 g's on Mr Secret to win in the eighth, and he did. The odd's were real low, so I didn't get rich, but I did shout and urge as I stood by the finish, ticket in hand. After collecting my winnings, Traci, Joe, Christa and I went to Anyang for the night. Andy had to come later. He make a mistake and put a lot of money on the favorite in the last race. He had to stick around to see some unknown come and take away his money.
Anyang. Party with foreigners who never leave the Seoul area. There are twenty of so of them in one school, a little terrifying. I felt to bad to really participate, but the food was good.
Sunday, got an external hard drive, another 190 gigs to fill. It took me a year and a half to fill 30 gbs, this next 190 will probably go in a few months, but then I can always get another. It was rather cheap, about 110$, but maybe another would be just hedonistically greedy. Traci and I went to a Picasso show, both felt to tired to really enjoy it, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. KTX train back to Gumi, asleep somewhat early.
And this morning. I woke up, looked in the mirror and the left side of my face was swollen, still is. I went to the doctor who, after a ultrasonic scan, said it was a swollen saliva gland and I should come back in two days.
The terrible thing about that is, Wednesday is a vacation day and I was planning on riding my moto to a national park.
I fell asleep at work repeatedly. When I got home I fell asleep in front of ROK beating Bosnia.
Despite feeling like it was a bad idea, I went to Seoul the next day. And it paid off handsomely. At Seoul Racecourse Park, I won a cool 900W. I was a high roller, hobbling around with a bad foot and nasty cough, wearing a shirt fit for the tracks, my chest hair protruding from the neck, suggestive of what lurked below. I put 2 g's on Mr Secret to win in the eighth, and he did. The odd's were real low, so I didn't get rich, but I did shout and urge as I stood by the finish, ticket in hand. After collecting my winnings, Traci, Joe, Christa and I went to Anyang for the night. Andy had to come later. He make a mistake and put a lot of money on the favorite in the last race. He had to stick around to see some unknown come and take away his money.
Anyang. Party with foreigners who never leave the Seoul area. There are twenty of so of them in one school, a little terrifying. I felt to bad to really participate, but the food was good.
Sunday, got an external hard drive, another 190 gigs to fill. It took me a year and a half to fill 30 gbs, this next 190 will probably go in a few months, but then I can always get another. It was rather cheap, about 110$, but maybe another would be just hedonistically greedy. Traci and I went to a Picasso show, both felt to tired to really enjoy it, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. KTX train back to Gumi, asleep somewhat early.
And this morning. I woke up, looked in the mirror and the left side of my face was swollen, still is. I went to the doctor who, after a ultrasonic scan, said it was a swollen saliva gland and I should come back in two days.
The terrible thing about that is, Wednesday is a vacation day and I was planning on riding my moto to a national park.
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