Third Culture Kid(s)

M. is on the tail end of his major yakudoshi, which is a series of three years (the middle one being the Big Bad one) in which the world is actually against you.  I contend that since his birthday is in December he’s actually having residual year #2 bad luck, which would go a long […]

According to her mom, who called a couple of days ago (without the flight number - I still have no idea what time K. is arriving), K. is on a diet and “probably won’t eat much.  Don’t let it bother you.”
Bother me?  The less I have to cook, the better for everyone.

In 1992, I went to work in a small town in rural Japan - and when I say “rural,” I mean the Japanese equivalent of, say, South Dakota. The kind of place that no one outside it quite gets, with its own special personality (in this case, it has a reputation for being dark, […]

This isn’t what I was going to write about earlier; I just remembered it and thought I’d write it down.
I’ve been a little obsessed with KBS World lately; it’s not that I’ve found a K-drama to fall in love with, because I never seem to catch them at the beginning, and dramas are hard to […]

Part the One: Obon
We went, we saw, we were conquered. By the toddler, who insisted on running amok at every opportunity. At one point, “running amok” meant slamming into the shins of a young woman, falling back on her butt, and then banging her head on the pavement. The girl was beside […]

If it couldn’t be Tiger Woods, I’m glad K.J. Choi won the AT&T National.  He played a hell of a game - climbed to the top quickly and managed to stay there.  And he apparently had a lot of praise for the Koreans who came out in droves to cheer him on.
Sunday’s round made for […]

So, here’s the thing.
I need some ways to unwind - call them “breaks,” call them “rewards” - because up until I got pregnant I was mostly unwinding with food, which isn’t especially constructive.
But I have certain constraints:

I do the vast majority of household and childcare work. M. tries, in his way, but he has […]

Since I posted that last bit of pessimism, I’ve taken a little time to just kind of sit on things and try to figure out the real problem.
It’s not that I don’t want to finish my dissertation and degree; there are plenty of negative reasons to do it, but there are also several important positive […]

I figure the reason I have, maybe, two readers right now is that I’m a complete and total downer.  If you read back over just the entries from this weblog (which is all you can do, actually, since the Typepad one is defunct), I seem to spend a lot of time moping.
Just so you know, […]