mondays are for bulleted lists of weekend fun

* i didn't go to a single wedding this weekend! that's right, i skipped out and boy was it nice.

*i did, however, start my roof-top garden which now has strawberries, hot peppers and tomatoes of the small and large varieties.

* the lady at my local garden shop thought i was CRAZY for buying dirt. why oh why wouldn't i already have dirt on my roof? she sold me a couple of dollars worth, but then refused to give me any more. i guess i'll have to hike nam san this week and steal if from there so i can finish planting. i never knew that a garden shop owner would be stingy with dirt and compost...

*my middle school class is cancelled for 2. whole. weeks!! hooray!!! and can i get an amen?!

*on saturday i went to a really fun migrant workers party where a few of us crazy white folks did some crazy white folk dancing which had the whole room roaring with laughter at how darn crazy white folks can be.

*on sunday, the general secretary and i went to maseok (small mountain furniture warehouse town that is reminiscent of shit, i forgot the name vermont, home of buck's furniture warehouse!) to celebrate the bangladeshi new year and ate a lot of good food, played some silly games, bought a few punjabis and i got all henna and bindi-ed up.

*sunday night was a tired, but relaxing veg out on the couch kind of night with an early bed time.

*spring is fully here with the green of new budding leaves, flowers flowers everywhere and people walking around looking relaxed, comfortable, and happy to be alive.

*if only there wasn't so much darn air pollution this year. i just read in the newspaper that the pollution in seoul is 2x as high as 5 years ago and the military actually cancelled all outdoor exercises because the co2 levels are so high...

* but despite that, gosh, it was a nice weekend.