Caveat: Apples and Socks

It's lunar new year, this weekend.  The hagwon got gift boxes of apples (presumeably those high-quality greenhouse-grown apples so popular here in the winter — I rather doubt they're imports from warmer climes) for all the staff.  I guess that's better than the gift boxes of Spam we got for Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving, back in September).  And one of my students gave me a gift box of socks, yesterday.  Yes, socks.  This is not the first time I've received a gift of socks from a student.  I think it must be a custom, of sorts.  In any event, it's probably right up there on my list of convenient job-perks.  I mean, which is really more useful, when you get down to what's really important in life:  stock options or sock options?  I'll opt for socks.  ㅋㅋㅋ ^_^

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