Caution: Exhaustion
Published on July 31, 2004 By modestmom In Welcome
I've been reading blogs from folks i know for a while now, always a bit jealous of how they find the time to sit down and blah blah blah about everything. Man, i've got a journal (real paper and everything) dating back to when we called it a diary! (about 1982) I'm a big fan of the writing of innermost thoughts and musings for a later date, for yourself, for whomever...problem is, finding the time.

What's so pressing that i can't get to a computer and update? I refuse to go through my day accounting for each precious minute. Let's just put it this way: I don't go out unless it's to the store on the way home from work, freeing my hands to do laundry is actually liberating, and, yes, it may have something to do with the fact that i've got a 3 month old daughter, a platoon, a common-law husband, and mother to take care of.

I know, i'm sick of my whining already. Let me think of a funny story to make up for it all...

I've been sitting here for seven minutes.

I'm racking my brain, here.

Yesterday afternoon it rained really hard and water started pouring in our house from the window ledge in my daughter's room.

On my way to work, some j-hole in his maroon dodge-ram/Ford 150-ish truck was barreling down the road heading right for me. Tires squeaked as he quickly maneuvered his maroon monster away from my Honda Odyssey. (where are the MPs when i need them?)
I'd say he crapped his pants. I almost died, but instead just went to work and did Sergeant's Time Training.

I found out that I failed the reading portion of the Korean DLPT. This is a test that measures how fluent you are in any particular language (this one, Korean)...It used to be my best portion. Now, I don't know, I feel ashamed. I feel like a retard having been a Korean linguist for almost 5 years and failing this test. I secretly (well not so much secretly now, eh?) hope that others fail, too. It would make me feel better knowing that the test was really hard and I am not just really stupid.

Any of this funny yet?

Kinda seems like a glass half-empty sort of thing to me.

It's been a long week. My common-law husband has to work today. I might get my hair cut. Haven't done that for 7 months. Hey, I'm a girl, i can get away with stuff like that.

Before i go, i want to let greywar know he totallly kicked butt on his PT test. chal hes-so-yo!


Comments
on Jul 31, 2004
If you find something really bad, you would always find the time.
on Jul 31, 2004
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on Aug 06, 2004
I found the story to be engrossing and absolutely true to life.
on Oct 15, 2004
I think I read this a while back but never made a comment. Sorry to hear about your DLPT woes. Was it one of the newer forms of the test (C/D/E)? Or one of the older forms (A/? I'm an MLI in the Korean school back at DLI. If there's anything I can do to help, like provide you with some materials, let me know. william.reynolds@monterey.army.mil

Your best bet to improve, other than any language training you can get the unit to fund, is to find Korean articles about things that interest you. It's all out there on the net now. If you're into comedies, read reviews of comedy movies. If you're into sports, go to the sports newspapers online. Look for articles about baby care on Korean sites. If it's something that interests you, then you are more likely to do it on your own and stick with it. Also, you're more likely to retain it. And while it's true, specific articles about topics that you enjoy may not necessarily mirror what you need to know on the DLPT, this will still help you in your overall language skills and help you improve your scores. Hope this helps at least a little and sorry for not commenting here sooner.