Koreans are good people

I woke up at dawn and it was hot. I tried to sleep it off, but it didn't really work. By the time I got to skymother, my tie had chalky dried sweat on it. I barely remember the class. I rushed back across the city to do an office call, and an earthquake struck while I was on the MRT. Hundreds of cellphones chirped emergency warnings nearly simultaneously, and the train slammed to a halt. I wasn't sure if it was a missle attack from the Chinese or an earthquake, but everybody else looked shook for a minute or two. Then we went back to normal. Then I taught the highest floor class I've done so far, and then I rushed back across the city again to the final session of the day. I got home and talked to lzyk for an hour, then a benevolent and intelligent jumping spider appeared on my pillow and I caught him and put him out. He was still lurking in my shoes when I got back hours later.

I slapped on my best taike shorts and went out towards food street, looking for food. A young man with halting English came up and asked if he could use my phone. It felt like a scam, so I asked him why and it turns out he was Korean, and locked out of his Airbnb, with no battery, and a friend in tow. We worked the problem for an hour, trying the police station, who didn't have a charger, but did have a cop with a busted up face and locked front doors, and we marched around trying to figure out hwo to get htem back inside. In despair, they showed me the window of the place, and some how one of htem noticed that the owner's phone number was on the wall. With that, I added tehm on line and got the code to get inside, by writing in Chinese. I felt accomplished. Then we beered up and I took them up food street to get salt water chicken. They taught me how to say "what is that guy doing" in Korean, because that guy was weirdly squatting in the road and laying out what looked like a picnic blanket, and then picked it back up. We never figured out what that guy was doing. Then we went up to linsen and ate salt water chicken and drank more beer. They want to go to nightmarket tomorrow, so maybe I will. I need to spend some time in korea. Fucking awesome people.