Well, we've been living in our new three-bedroom apartment in Gangnam for four weeks now. Normally I'd have taken some "after" pictures of this place and put them up on Facebook and this blog already, especially after the herculean effort Miss H and I put in to cleaning it. But between the two of us unwed slobs and our trouble-making cat, we can't keep our domicile photogenic for longer than five minutes.
I'd also have taken some pictures of the apartment building and the surrounding neighborhood of Gaepo-dong and shown you those as well, but I'm waiting for the dang yellow dust to depart. It's been bad this season. It got started early, all the way back in February, and March is the peak season. Miss H and I have been keeping ourselves busy this month: social engagements, baseball games, trivia contests, and the like. I've managed to sneak in some more brewing with the guys, too—we should be bottling our latest creation, a robust honey-molasses porter, this very weekend. Last weekend I went out to a preseason baseball game (LG Twins vs. Kia Tigers) with some other Sejong professors, and the weather was gorgeous: warm, sunny, and clear. Today, however, we're planning on meeting our army doctor friend, Miss B, at Jamsil Sports Complex and watching another game (Twins vs. Doosan Bears) at 2:00. I just peeked outside and I can barely see the other apartment buildings, let alone the mountains in the distance. It's going to be another moist, hazy, yellowish—and therefore quite warm—day. Blurgh.
The April showers should wash all of this crap out of the air and leave everything nice and squeaky clean...before the summer humidity and the omnipresent Seoul smog creep back in, anyway. Maybe I'll get some pics of this apartment then. I should also have some news about my travel plans in summer and autumn and will tell you how our honey-molasses porter tastes. Until then, though...you'll just have to savor the mystery.
Sincerely,
The Postman
P.S. As bad as the yellow dust is here, it's still worse in China. This is what it looks like there this time of year. Tragic that the poor people living there (and here) have to suffer for the Chinese government's mismanagement of the environment...
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| from the Daily Mail |
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