Post from Adelaide

Came to Adelaide this weekend. To meet some friends, and to do some shopping. IKEA, Marion, Harbourtown, and possible Rundle Mall...

Lately, I've thought about my options for 2010, and I've come up with my Top 3. These are no particular order:

1. Stay in Mildura. This is the most boring option. This is the "life" that I would have had a few years ago, if I didn't go to Korea. I would have bought a house, and started to settle down. Mildura isn't a bad place, but it's damn boring. This style of middle-agedness is not for me.

2. Move to Adelaide. I've been to Adelaide a few times this year, and it's not too bad. But, It just reminds me of just a bigger version of Mildura. There are things to do, but eventually, it would get boring as well.

3. Go back to Korea. I really miss Korea, and until recently, I saw going to Korea as putting my life on hold, and then would restart it when I'm back in Australia. I've realised that that isn't the case. Life is life, no matter where you live it. Compared to now, my life in Korea was simple, enjoyable, and even though there was bullshit to deal with (everything has bullshit to deal with), it was different bullshit to here, and it doesn't feel as bad as the bullshit here.

and seriously, I'd rather get middle-aged in a country where I'm enjoying myself, rather in one that I'm not.

First week back hasn't been all that good. Teaching computers, in a computer lab that has regular problems and annoyances - in other words, borderline unusable - gets frustrating pretty quickly. Also, being told that you have to use Office for Mac, because it's cheaper (but not user-friendly, and shit interface) does get frustrating as well.

Word crashing as you open it - and only temporary fix is a restart.
Word crashing after you save a document - it does save, but you've gotta reopen it.
Powerpoint crashing as you open it = and only temporary fix is a restart.

Having those problems makes it very frustrating to do work. Frustrating is an understatement.

There are other issues at work that I'm trying to deal with, but taking things a day at a time. I'll be honest - I'm not enjoying the job as much as I thought I would be. I enjoy it enough to stay for the whole year (assuming that I get the 2nd semester contract). Assuming that things don't really improve - 1 year would be enough for me.

Just see how it goes... see how it pans out.

Back to work today, which wasn't too bad. Holidays were getting a bit boring. Set the alarm for 6:20am, but was a bit early, and hit snooze a few times. Got up, had breakfast, checked facebook and a few other sites, had a shower, and got ready to ride to work. Only took 25 minutes - which isn't too bad.

Work was okay. I've got 3 classes on Monday - a prep class and two grade 1/2 classes. Most of them were still in Holiday mode, so were a bit restless and easily distracted. Probably still hyper on all the chocolate they ate during easter. Unit meeting dragged on a bit, but to be expected since it's the first one back.

The ride home was more difficult than the ride to work. 35 minutes. Highlight of the day was using the Boseong Green Tea powder (보성 녹차 가루) I bought when i was in Melbourne, and sprinkled and mixed it in with some Peter's Ice Cream. 맛있어!

Plan is to ride my bike to work tomorrow as well. Wanna do it for the whole week to see how it goes. Also got a plan to hit the gym 2 times a week, but with a fair bit of stuff on this week (both work and personal life), might only get there once.

Something to make me laugh?

Watch Pac Man in Real Life on CollegeHumor

Watch Lion King 300 and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

Easter Weekend

Went to Melbourne, and Great Ocean Road (went to Colac, and stayed overnight in Warrnambool, then Great Ocean Road the next day). Had a good time with friends (that could actually make it, and didn't fuck with my plans).

Here's some photos ^^