The morning dawned to lightning and thunder. Thunderstorms are more rare in Korea (at least Seoul) than in the American midwest, but more frequent than in California, where they’re almost unheard of, especially in the north where I grew up.
I love thunderstorms.
Today, my 3rd day back at work, isn’t going to inolve being at work – it’s a national holiday: liberation day. It’s essentially what we call VJ day in the US. The flags are out, and I have a day to work on recuperating from the atrocious jetlag I’m experiencing. I always have bad jetlag, though I did a kind of experiment this time that I’ll report on in a different entry, such that my jetlag going east was less than usual (but not my return jetlag going west).
I’m still working on that Korean art history book I mentioned a while back. The image at left is a fabulous painting from 김홍도 [Kim Hong-do] (also known as Danwon, 1745 – 1816) titled 주상관매도 [jusang gwanmaedo] (English title given is “looking at plum trees from a boat” – not sure if that’s really a translation or a re-titling).
