saturday

I had a nice weekend.  A little less busy than I was originally anticipating, but that suits me just fine.

Friday and today aren't really worth talking about.  So I'll get right to Saturday.

On Saturday, I visited Seoul with a new friend.  That was fun.  You know, I was going to give you the play-by-play of how it all went down, and then I thought to myself, "Self.  I bet he might just read blogs."  This blog is unknown to the world right now, really, so I doubt he'd read this any time soon.  But what if it gets on some list later, and he happens to come upon it, and read about himself?  Would that be ... bad?  Let me think.

Posting about his private thoughts and ideas - that would be bad.  He told that stuff to me, so that's where it ends on that subject.  Posting about what we did - probably fine.  Posting about my thoughts on ... him?  I, personally, would love to read that sort of stuff about myself, ha, at least the initial thoughts from someone I've just met.  Especially if they didn't know that I knew about their writing, you know?

Urm, hm.  Dang, just thinking about the morality or whatnot of blogging about people actually makes me sleepy, ha.  I guess I give up and get tired when faced with an obstacle.  Probably why math homework always put me to sleep almost instantly, haha.

He seems like a very nice guy.  I don't know him well yet, and I don't really have that solid of a grasp on his personality.  It doesn't usually take me this long to get that, so I'm surprised that he's eluding me.  Ha, clearly, it's not intentional.  We're both very open with each other.  It's just that some things seem to be unclear.  I'll figure it out eventually, I think.

He was more of a gentlemen than most fellows I've interacted with (throughout my life) have been.  Still surprises me to be treated like a lady, ha.  Korean men that I interact with as more than strangers have generally been really polite - holding doors, making sure I'm comfortable, seated first, etc.  Before coming here, I'd never had a man make sure that I had a seat on the subway and 'stand guard' over me as we progressed to our destination.  If there are empty seats next to me, the guy will sit down, otherwise he keeps standing.  Pretty impressive, given how driven to find seats many Koreans seem to be, ha.

I like the way most Korean men dress.  The suits are hilarious and wonderful, for the most part - I will not object to a shiny suit if it's worn with confidence and well-fitted, ha.  The casual clothing is super-dressy, really - I know they put more effort into their "look" than I do, most of the time.  The guys here also tend to be quite slim, perhaps fit as well - that's always hard to tell just from a glance.  I do not like comparing myself with these guys, though.  I'm much more "masculine" than they are in some ways and that just bothers me, ha. (I know I must weigh more than many of them, and I'm positive that I often have bigger hips, ha.  And I'm often taller.  And!  And -- I have more arm hair.  Fun.)

As for how the chicks dress -- hmmm.  There are too many questionable chick outfits for me to be a wholehearted supporter of Korean Chick Fashion.  More on this later, because I think I might actually be able to fall asleep now.  Yay!  And "Eeeps."  Time to add the "Maybe I won't wake up on time" fear to my "how will the lesson plan go?" anxiety, haha.  Sorry that this post didn't really include the promised weekend details, ha.