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 ^_^