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Good news: I do not have to be at work at 6am on the start of Daylight Savings like I was originally scheduled.

Bad news: The new person I’ve been training decided to flake out so I’ll be working OT again.

Possibly all week again, too, because my loyal team member (who is awesome and whom I lub and am willing to bribe in any way I can to get her to return to my department after her maternity leave) may be having a baby starting any day now, and without a new person sticking around longer than a few days (this is my second new hire since my non-assistant flame-out just two weeks ago), it’s just gonna be me doing all the things. *cries*

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Park Hye Kyung – “Confession”

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Just spent the past half hour cutting* up not one, not two, but three whole pineapples with only a cake knife, aka a glorified butter knife. I feel like a beast. They’re not the prettiest chunks of pineapple you’ll ever see, but by golly, there are chunks.

(My GM, after she bought the pineapples: “We should have knives and a cutting table here.” Surprise, we do NOT.)

So here’s a shout-out to Dixie paper plates, the extra-sturdy kind. They protected the counter from my awkward hack job and even did a decent job in containing the juice.

*“cutting” is a generous description. More like “hacking and sawing as the flimsy ‘knife’ slides its wayward way through the fruit, somehow separating pieces of juicy flesh from each other.”

Note: I do not recommend trying to cut up a pineapple (much less three!) with a cake knife.

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Mild panic attack because I just emailed the parking people (and copied a councilman, per their request, but still) due to proposed permit parking changes for my street. Like, I’m going on record to officially complain that their new idea stinks and I’m against it. Except I said it with much bigger words and in a more polite way. But that was gist.

Look at me, writing the government about parking issues. Totally an adult now. Totally.

I don’t think it’s the drama’s themselves, but more my motivation to watch them. Ever since Reply 1988 finished, I just haven’t had motivation to watch anything. I managed to get through CitT, but even that took me a while.

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Ahhh, yeah. That was me last year. Between the one-two punch of Misaeng and Valid Love, no other dramas really appealed to me for a very long time.

Breaks are good, though! Helps to clear the palate, and then who knows what bounty will be waiting for you when you finally decide to jump back in.

It’s good that you’re doing good with drama’s right now. I’m still struggling to watch the ones I’ve been trying to watch. I haven’t gotten past ep 2 of Neighborhood Hero, or ep 3 of OMHE.

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OMHE definitely isn’t what it could have been, so you’re not really missing out. I’m just too involved with the characters by now and want to see how they end up (especially my girl Dong Mi <3<3<3<3<3).

Neighborhood Hero is definitely a different vibe and I can totally understand someone not being into it, but it’s the kind of languid show with low-key interesting characters that seem to hit a sweet spot with me. It vaguely reminds me of Midnight Diner or Yoona’s Street in that way. Yeah, there’s this whole “spy who burned me” plot, but that’s not really why I’m watching. I like seeing the neighborhood come together to try and defeat the developers. The spy stuff is just there to give me interesting characters and situations (I mean a bar for retired/fired spies is pretty much a delightful conceit to me, especially when the most earnest puppy and worst spy ever is assigned to follow them. So ridiculous yet adorable).

Also I’ve heard rumbles from other people who have been disappointed in this year’s offerings, so you’re not alone if that’s the case for you. But you know what they say: one drama fan’s trash is another drama fan’s treasure. Or something like that. :p