three and a half weeks before christmas
twenty-four days
five hundred seventy-six hours
thirty-four thousand five hundred sixty minutes
simply put..
out of those i will devote
18 days to working
roughly 8 hours a day i am in my work building
7 hours are spent in bed
and the other 8 or 9 are mostly spent doing jack... who knows. i've never asked myself or answered to anyone about it
here's the predicament. christmas, 24 days..
shopping
shipping
cards
posting
biggest problem shipping.
what to do when you have to do these these but all you really want to do is (and I quote murphy here) "faf" about and do your own things cause you can't really be bothered getting all these things together because it's fairly difficult, the post office is difficult, far away, open only during my lunch break (my love for food is hard to break) and even if i go during my break i practically have to run, who wants that burden.. bah!
okay. get it done quickly.
numero uno project, complete. i did send things out, got it done.. heh. from what i gather it'll even make it there before chrsitmas. i'm on it, like white on rice. wha!
what now. ah yes... a trip. because climbing mountains at the start of december is fun, and it's spectacular when you go south and the weather is perfect even though you never bothered to check the weather because you were to lazy. great job!
haeinsa, an old temple. peace, serenity, and free water abound to those who can spot it. otherwise some might only see it as a lot of stairs plopped onto the side of the mountain with some fancy brick work.
don't let this mash-up of words fool you, i may seem a bit jaded about the haeinsa movement, nope not a bit. i found my peace there. i realized my serenity and even tried the fresh spring water. attempted and succeeded a climb i was actually unaware i was doing at the time.
[note]: when you pick a mountain you can see the top of note it on a map.. it'll give perspective.
i enjoyed the soothing company of a good friend and had great food.
i discovered the great feeling of traveling and arriving by bus and train.
if the peace of land didn't drive home the feeling of calm i'm sure seeing the incredible scope of buddhist text written on tablets. it fascinated and astounded my scholarly mind and surely would have dumbfound those who didn't know such things existed. or maybe it was the mountain river running through the midst of the path in some spots, that took away my existing cares and for a moment made me forget the threats that are rising and the shadow of danger that has been cast across the country, and as i looked from the top of the mountain over a very consuming and vast mountain range near this utterly gorgeous temple i could maybe see a portion of survival, feel the tug of the wind against me and the call of the wilderness in my blood.
but really don't take my word for it. i wouldn't even bother reading anything actually, but by now if you've read this it's much to late for you my friend. i'm sorry.
The KTX... first time ever.. fast train. classy, we rode it backwards, i took window. nana
view from the room
winter is coming
the temple grounds
prayer rooms
steven decided to switch a monks walking stick with another's umbrella.. bahahahaha
it still felt like fall, nothing like december
the 1,200 year old tree, planted by a buddhist
haeinsa day 1: over...
Food Time!!! and What a spread!
BibimBop and Bulgogi and like twenty thousand different sides
seriously? we're hiking.
at the tippy top
koreans and their personal space concepts. or maybe it was the cold wind?
to the west
to the south
the fiesty wind nearly blew me off the north face
the feet that took us to the top
thank you mr. korean man
check it!
much love... that was a lot higher than i thought originally. 4k hike.. eh why not. 5,000 ft. oh, really?
the mt. from the parking lot.
i also again went to the aquarium, this time with stephen. it really is nice. we tried to save a horseshoe crab that was (excuse the pun) stuck between a rock and a hard place (glass)... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
oh yes, they would certainly eat you if the glass broke. sharks, watch out.
"homeless mi-gook steals starfish from local aquarium and sets them free"
wait... what? stephen? noooooooo....
you need to look happy to be in there.
jelly fish...
o.m.g. so many pictures.
k.thanks.
