I didn’t really do much yesterday. I wandered around the Sinchon district, a university neighborhood that has that same feel of university neighborhoods anywhere – lots of young people, trendy stores, interesting hairdos in multiple colors, individuals toting musical instruments to gigs, people standing on streetcorners preaching damnation or salvation or other stopping places in between.
I finally got the gumption up to dive back into the subway and work my way over toward the area where I had heard a lot of electronics stores were (thinking in terms of shopping for a new mp3 player, among other things) – but I decided on a whim to a rather roundabout route, and by the time I got there, I was feeling listless and unmotivated.
So I came back home and have been tinkering with solving my photo-archive problem online. My photo database that I’m hosting on my own server has run into size-maximum constraints, and I’m looking for alternatives. I recently discovered that the typepad website that hosts this blog also hosts photos, and so I’m going to see if that provides a workable photo-hosting solution.
I did succeed in finding a conveniently placed bookstore where I can buy my magazine fixes – better placed than the one at Itaewon I’d found a few weeks ago. I also bought some stickers and pencils for my nephews, and will try to post that today or tomorrow.
This picture shows the doorway to my humble apartment. Looks like a prison, eh? But it’s workable. Has a snazzy electronic lock so I don’t have to use a key to get in, though I carry it around just in case there’s a power failure or something (not that I’ve seen one yet).
This picture shows what I see when I step out of my building to walk to the subway station at Jeongbalsan. There’s a parking lot space right to the east, then some buildings. In the distance between the buildings, down the street, is the large Lotte department store. The main subway entrance is behind that building, but it’s possible to enter the subway station from the basement of the department store, where there is also a very upscale grocery store.
So soon I go off to work. I’m having a little lunch of instant noodles and drinking nice cold boricha. Outside is sunny but with the coolish bite of fall in the air. The trees have finally begun to change.