Procrastination is like masturbation...

I am of course quoting the brillant young woman that I lucky enough to call my sister. Ms. Susana Sanchez once told me (and I've never forgotten): Procrastination is like masturbation. It feels good, but in the end you're just fucking yourself. Lovely, I know. Lol! But that is totally how I feel right now. I put off doing my end of the month evaluations until the absolute last minute and now the stupid website is not working and I have no idea how the hell I am going to be able to get it all done by tomorrow. Luckily this week is a super short week since Wednesday is the Lunar New Year or as they like to say "Korean Happy New Year" so I only teach tomorrow and Tuesday and then on Wednesday I go to Seoul for 5 days with Jure. :-) That should be fun.
I was supposed to get a ton of stuff done this weekend but I was so tired from this week and so sore from Hapkido that I just ended up bumming around. Whatever... I know I'm whining and no I do not want any cheese with my whine. I just needed to let it out a little. I am, however, really glad that I did not procrastinate my Hapkido. I feel like I'm finally doing something that I've wanted to do for so long. Its like every ache and pain is wonderful. Because I know it is the result of hard work. Now I just really need to put the learning Korean into high gear. I know that if I put my mind to it I will. Just not more procrastination... maybe. Lol!
To talk about something else. Tonight I went out to dinner to have Samgyupsal with the ladies from the hair salon. Yunji was still working so she came after but dinner was really good. They're really nice and I like hanging out with Korean people. Especially older people, but they don't really speak any English so today Yunji's cousin, Hemin came with us so she could translate. I really like Samgyupsal. Its not so much the actual meat, which is closer to really fat bacon than anything else, but I like the way that you eat it. You cook the meat on a grill that is in the middle of the table and you wrap it in lettuce or grape leaves with onions and garlic and salad and other things and eat each piece of meat like a wrap. It's yummy and it feels like a really organic way to eat. It's funny that here, in most restaurants, you cook it yourself at the table and its pretty cheap (Samgyupsal is about $7 per person) whereas in the US you go to Melting Pot and pay out the ass to cook stuff yourself. Whatever.

Lastly, I wanted to make an observation that kind of hit as I was writing all the evaluations. Almost all of my kids, particularly my Intensives kids leveled up a lot. Some of them were in Carnival 2 and went all the way up to Odyssey 2. That means nothing to most of you, but it is substantial. Each level: Wake-up (Level 1), Playground (Level 2), Carnival (Level 3), and Odyssey (Level 4), has 6 sublevels. Several of my kids went up an entire 6 sublevels. Most of them went up at least 3-4 sublevels. That's what happens when you have Suji teecher. Yay!! It makes me very proud but at the same time I am sad that I am no longer teaching most of them. Oh well...