party times are gay times

• puff of smoke from the marigold/traditional New Year tree sitting in the corner while I was waiting (if you wait long enough someone will help you)
• closer contact with things, the fish freshly clubbed next to the dinner table
• comfort I feel when I see Kim Hyun Joong's face on a billboard, comfort when I hear last year's 서녀시대 hits while I'm writing my lesson plans. I'm dying to say 안녕하세요.

• girl in the lobby plucking a goldfish from the pool with the hands that brought me breakfast - laid it in her palm, petted it, kept it waiting, mercifully dropped it back.