| sit-ups | chair-lifts |
|---|
| 100 | 0 |
| Breakfast, lunch & dinner = January 7 |
I read somewhere once about the subject of writing and being
a writer that every morning one should get up and set aside 4 hours to write. One
didn’t have to actually write
anything, but they couldn't do anything else.
I was awake for exactly 1 hour before I put pen to paper and
even after the last paragraph, I still have nothing to write about. Of course,
nothing has happened today-- yet. And I haven't quite sat here and done
nothing. I drank 2 cups of coffee, combed my hair and shaved... And I thought
about writing. Doesn't that count? I wrote seven thousand words in my novel in
two days. That's gotta count for something, although my creative juices are
feeling pretty drained as a result. Plus, I've added a daily entry to this
notebook.
I changed my daily newspapers from the Korea Times to the
international edition of the New York Times, so instead of reading Korean nationalistic
crap day in and day out, I can read American nationalistic crap day in and day
out with the facade of being global. As long as I don't have to read about “the
Korean population aging in dog years” every day or how Korea has accomplished
in a few decades what Europe did in centuries, I'll be a happy man. What these Kimchi
Cowboys fail to realize is that without Americans support and European examples
and guidance, it took just as long to get to the same level that Europe and the
US managed to accomplish 100-200 years earlier. Not to belittle Korea’s
accomplishments, but come on-- it's not hard to copy and Korea is renowned for
the ability to copy things. Why not industrialization, too? Give credit where
it’s due-- sure what Korea did was incredible, but it had lots of outside help
and support. Making cheap products is useless if no one buys them and that's
exactly what Korea’s export economy did, and why it's in trouble with a strong
won now. Whatever. New newspaper, different viewpoints. Change is good, but I
bet actually getting the paper delivered will turn into a hassle. Nothing is
ever easy here.
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