Caveat: The Empress Pulcheria

It being Thursday, and 내신, I only had two classes. So I had some time to kill at work. One almost never "desk-warms" in hagwon life, as is so common when working as a public-school English teacher in Korea.

I was surfing wikipedia.

I spent almost two hours reading various pages of Roman and Byzantine history. I was really getting into it. I found out about the Empress Pulcheria, and the machinations of the Byzantine court around the Council of Chalcedon. It was very interesting. I think that woman would make a good protagonist for a novel.

My classes went well. I like teaching debate to elementary students – they're too young to realize it's boring, and they get excited by it.

It rained. That's good, as the sky needed cleaning – the spring smog/fog/dirt-from-heaven was getting unbearable. My advice: don't visit South Korea in spring, despite the pretty flowers everywhere.

[daily log: walking, 5.5km]

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