A sign of things

Some quick notes before I get back to work…

We’re nearly at our 1 month mark, here in Korea, and considering purchasing a wireless router as a reward.  Wouldn’t that be swell!  Anyway, it’s Friday afternoon here, nearly late night Thursday for those in the U.S. und Ahh, and I’m thinking about relaxing over the weekend and the kilograms of fried dough I would like to eat.

This week hasn’t been terribly crowded, but still exhausting.  I continue my meetings with Seeyong and Daniel to edit the five elementary and middle school textbooks I proofed last week.  We have arrived at our the last book and, thusly, our last meeting to take place tomorrow at…some point, somewhere. (This is not on me, I’m waiting to hear from Seeyong.)  With that said, I’ve enjoyed proofing these books.  While I wouldn’t choose this as a career path, it’s nice to be reading, writing, and editing something that is guaranteed to be in print soon.  And it doesn’t sadden me as I thought it would.  Sure, the writer of this textbook doesn’t have a great grasp for the English language, especially nuance, and will still be payed/published for work they’ve done, but that doesn’t hurt my current situation.  In fact, it bolsters my resolve.  If someone that requires that much editing and proofing can be published, even in the world of textbooks, why can’t I?  I mean, I would require, what?, 10% less editing.  That’s bound to count for something…moving on.

The great and powerful Henry Warren and I are frantically attempting to assemble our proposal for the Reading With Pictures Anthology that was mentioned in the last post; earlier in the month.  Sure, it should have been done a long time ago and Thanksgiving has made it nearly impossible for Henry to get much drawing done for the proposal, but I’ve been busy trying to find work and coping homesick pangs and all that.  Yeah, that’s the excuse I’ll use.

Also, Kira has delivered unto me some basic sketches for a book we’ll be working on in the next three weeks.  They are fantastic.  I could not be more excited to be working with her on this project as it is not only right up her alley but…she’s also excited about it and can probably use it for college credit.  Hey, look at that.

Sadly, I’ve neglected the ‘Page of the Month’ and ‘Now?’ sections of the blog as I don’t have a camera and the one on my phone is generally terrible.  Until we either get new phones or a boss camera, that section will begin to whither, only to be resurrected later.  That’s mostly the issue with the ‘Page of the Month’ section as well.  I don’t have a lot of material that’s ready to go, so I don’t know how I feel about posting it up yet.  Maybe that opinion will change, but in the mean time…sorry.  If you’re interested in how things are going out here in Korea you can visit my youtube page as we’ve been able to use our iPod Nanos to shoot some short bits.  As well, if you have anything you’d like to see, leave all requests in the ‘comments’ section and I’ll find the time to shoot and post it.

I’m working on some review-type entries that may or may not see the light-of-blog in the coming days but that’s what you get.  I’m trying to remain busy and stave off my obsession with street foods.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.  Please send us pie.

Bye, bye.