He Tried So Hard To Look Sober After One Drink...

연습할 사람이 없어서 한국어 배우는 게 ㅈㅉ 어려워요 :‘) 어떡해요…. 한국어로 블로깅을 해야 할까요…?

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.

2025년 3월 28일 (금)

여러분 ㅜㅜ 머리가 아파요…

오늘은 쉴 것 같아요 ㅜㅜ 솔직히 전 어쨌든 휴식이 필요했어요.

아무튼, 이건 오늘의 기분에 맞는 노래예요 ㅎㅎㅎ

*side note: i debated saying 아무튼, 여기 오늘의 기분에 맞는 노래 있어요~" to emphasise ‘/here is/ a fitting song for today’s feeling’ but idk if that’s very natural to say in korean…? if anyone knows and feels like sharing i’d be thankful~ :)

you never met a monster you couldn't love

2025년 5월 6일 (화)

이 포스트를 쓰는 동안 벌써 5월이 된 걸 깨달았어요…. ㅋㅋㅋ 전 “뭐?”라고 생각했어요

아무튼… 지금 기차에서 이 포스트를 쓰고 있어요. 뭘 더 써야 할지 모르겠어요 ㅎㅎㅎ

좋은 날 보내세요

Follow your heart.💕

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

2025년 3월 31일 (월)

안녕하세요! 오랜만이에요~ 보고 싶었어요? ㅋㅋ 농담이에요, 사실 2일밖에 안 됐어요.

좋은 소식이에요: 이제 더 이상 아프지 않아요. 그런데 너무 바빠서 활동을 못 했어요. 지금부터는 더 열심히 활동하려고 해요~~

아무튼 오늘은 친구 생일이라서 한국과 일본 무한리필 식당에 가서 먹을 거예요. 기대되고 신나요~~~ 짱!

좋은 하루 보내세요~