The Been Briefing

Esther just told me I look like a cherry blossom...

I was thinking more along the lines of 'frumpled' and 'happy'.

• It's 60 degrees and sunny. Wouldn't a field trip to Baskin Robbins be nice?

• My room is now being used during the 3:00-4:20 class.

• It's movie night tonight for Step 3. The prospect of a "party" was the only thing keeping them going during last night's class.

• Now that the Dr. Hwang Woo-suk faking stem cell fiasco has died down, other things have been in the news...

• The United States has officially recognized Dokdo Island (long considered to be Korean in their own eyes) as belonging to the Japanese. Ooh, that's gotta hurt.

• Steelers player and Superbowl MVP Hines Ward is currently in Korea. Everybody is celebrating him as a hero. Strange to me, since American football is basically a footnote amongst other Korean sports. Still, his multi-racial background opens up discussion in this most-homogeneous nation. I hear the numbers of inter-racial marriages is rapidly increasing.

• Lee Seung-yeop, the Korean "power slugger" who signed on with the Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese central league team, is looking stateside....