In a desperate bid to free up more hard drive space, I was going through all of my photos from the past three years to delete the poorly composed/super blurry shots when I rediscovered a few that I'd taken when my first teaching program in Korea took us to Seoul for a cooking lesson.

Here is the example gimbap that our instructor made:

I'm still alive! (I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.) My life is kind of chaotic right now, but it's the bittersweet kind of chaos that means change and growth and saying goodbye!hello. 

The past couple weeks have been a hot mess of packing, moving, helping other people move, packing, roadtripping, feeding new and interesting bugs my flesh and blood, being reminded of how poorly I swim, packing, and coming to grips with the sad fact that I will never ever catch up on my Tumblr feed. Also, packing. 

This weekend will see yet MOAR roadtripping, the joyful attendance of a Forbidden Union, and even more moving as I make my final push for the Pacific Northwest.

I owe many, many people e-mail/comment responses and story critiques, not all of which I'll be able to get to this afternoon while basking in the library's free Wired. (We don't have Internet access at Joe's apartment, and I'm not 100% sure I will in my temporary home in Seattle.) Please bear with me for another week or so as I tumble across the country and get (temporarily) settled.