Soju? Work? Do what now?

So...long time no post. Well, a lot of that is a serious push to get the mess the GIS people made after my exit to when I got back. Ever since, it has been a constant struggle to clean up the mess, patch shaky trust, and move forward with good products. F@#$!!! Seriously! Who knew managing would be so awful! I miss my coworkers stateside who are GREAT to work with. Damn!

Anyway, now on to the Savvy of the night. So after moving into my new home...well still haven't explored the neighborhood, but have been out many times. In fact, I have been out a couple times for a more traditional Soju experience than my previous Polly's/Cancun/King Club nights. This entailed going out with our Korean clients in the military who are overseeing the Korean portion of our work. Apparently, not many other ex-pats are going out to do this...and I am finding that I know zero korean and it hurts. I did learn that being the youngest always makes me everyone's bitch. So that is great. Who'da thunk it? Anyway, these nights are quite amazing. Glad that it was Friday night. We headed out first to a traditional Korean BBQ place. It was delicious! Very good! Anyway, between myself and one RAD ex-pat from our Denver office (Brian), and four Koreans, we plowed through multiple plates of meat, delicious other bits, and OH YEAH, 7 or 8 bottles of Soju.

Well, as if that wasn't good enough, I found that I am shaky pouring Soju, not sure if it was nerves or soberness, because the arm got steadier as the night went on.... :-( Anyway, the night was still young, couldn't a been much past 10 or 10:30, so time to go to a bar. Well, it is nice out here right now (the next day it was in the upper 80's or 20's depending on who you are), so we were outside and pounding beers. Now that we were in my element, I was drinking 2 glasses at a time like a genius, but impressing the "money-men" from our Korean client. I remember that Brian and I learned a lot about Korean social culture/structure as the night went, RIGHT HAND ONLY, DAMMIT!!! So, even though it was nice, we came prepared with umbrellas, our most awesome and fun translator YeonMo brought her brand new umbrellas from her new VW, and well, they left the earthly realm at some point that night. Sad! :-( Oh, yeah, let's not forget that the BIG boss is out with other clients doing the same and we were supposed to meet up with him. Well, drunken phone tag, and an unwillingness on everyone's part to go meet the other led to the inevitable never meeting up...except for one! So he just showed up, and even in all or our inebriated state, we could see he was COMPLETELY GONE. Good for some great laughs.

So, done at that bar right, time to go home? NO!!! Time to go to the apartment, buy some delicious bordeaux, and Snickers, and head upstairs. We get upstairs, and I have a passionate one-sided discussion of GIS and the greatness of it...hmm, weird! Three glasses, four people, bitch-boy Steve, straight from the bottle, classy! Did I mention more food, oh AND Soju show up? DAMN!!! So, that leads to me barely recalling the night, the cab ride home, or anything else really. On to working on Sunday, starting bright and early at 1pm. Needless to say that was a memorable-forgettable experience and needing grease. Oh, by the way, I found that grease! A delicious place that serves GREASY burgers, and three of us swearing off any liquor for at least a week. Mmmm! So I will have to wrap this up...its getting way too long. I will catch you up to at least the last week soon.

Oh, and updated photo album!
PHOTO ALBUM

RADNESS!!!!

So...today I moved into my apartment in Seoul. Ummm....AWESOME!!! It is right downtown, near Seoul station, and just in the middle of it all. I don't know quite what to do with it. It is so awesome! A huge bedroom, two bath, and the 18th floor with a view of the Seoul tower (sit-n-spin restaurant) and all of downtown. It is awesome!!! I have to say it is way better than where I was.

If it weren't for working a ton, and just being just plain tired, I would have more to say. So, maybe this will be more interesting this weekend...and some new photos. Stay salty!

Korea v 2.0

Well, guess who's back? That's right, I am like Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Sylvester Stalone...an action hero who doesn't know when to stop, until WAYYYY TOOOO late!

Yeah, jamming out another tour in country. Plenty of plans this time...that suit, and well, women's universities, and I guess, that's it. Well, I am jet lagged, technically still working from my hotel room, and so ready to hit the eject button for dinner. I don't have much to say other than I brought the Seattle weather with me. Now all of the "nice" weather they were having here. GONE! Now it is cooler and rainy. Sigh, the only thing worse would be if it were 90 degrees. Well, I have that to look forward to later. So with aspirations of making this a different experience than last time, I sign off, but I know you all will be reading, commenting, and e-mailing me ... Right?!?!