My sentiments exactly..

From here, as part of a longer, very excellent, very cute photo article on farm living, food, the simple life, thanksgiving, democracy.. the unifying theme a question on why we eat so much fast food and eat food so fast.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
-Cicero

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Seoul food check

Dolsot bibimbap? Check. Dukbokgi? Check. Kalbi? Check. Bulgogi? Check. Ginseng Chicken? Check. Pajeon? Check. Kimchi? Everyday check. Oyster hot pot? Check. Beef tartare? Check. Sundubu Jigae? Check.
 

SHIT AND REPEAT!

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안녕하세요! (an nyoung ha seh yo)

.. which means, hello. obviously.
Quick thoughts on Seoul, where I’ve been for the last 3 days getting hopelessly lost, eating like a king, shopping like I belong on the forbes list and wearing a fuzzy cap just because I can.
1. Korean is such a foreign language to me I might as well be in Russia. [...]

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Beautiful!

Two things:
This hand soap by Compagnie de Provence (that comes in a glass bottle whose price I shall not mention) was hangin’ out in the toilet of one of the Changi airport lounges. I washed my hands twice, scrambled to enter the brand into my phone, slathered on the equally indulgent hand lotion up to [...]

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Hits home

A good, resonating read, which adequately describes what so many people my age seem to be going through. And seeing as how i think about nothing but quitting my job and writing for the rest of my life (which i know will be a terrible decision but still can’t stop entertaining the thought.. fool) for [...]

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Weekend quotable

“I’m not being rude, I’m just being INFP.”
“Hell is other people.. at breakfast.”

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Retarded weekend

On Friday I dispensed platidudinal pearls of wisdom in a drunken stupor, and in the follow up conversation where companions tried to piece together the events of the evening, I elicited the comment “You stumped me with your complexity.” WA LAU! For better or worse, I was rather chuffed. hahaha. Recant of interaction below, bear in [...]

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simple and lovely

things that are making my morning (:

Gorgeous rippled glass vases from the Brook Farm General Store.

Eric Hutchinson, still. Listen to more of him on Grooveshark, also my newfound plaything.

Fun, colourful notebooks from Archie Grand to add to my collection! ‘Suffragates I Met And Liked’ / ‘Vegetarians I Met And Liked’ / ‘Wives I Had And Liked’ [...]

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Appraisal :\

L displays the courage of the foolish naive.
Of course, there were quite positive comments as well (overall a good appraisal), but bejezus, haha, what sort of a comment is that?! I believe my boss just called me a bloomin’ fool. Btw, he really did cancel “foolish” and write “naive” instead.
Have never been one for inspirational [...]

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have you ever seen someone

 so happy to be with her colleagues?!

and yet, itching to get the hell out- true sentiments masked by hyperbolic proclamations of ‘taking over the world’, which of course, no one believes.

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