james new brain

SEATTLE, Migook – 2007.12.27

This is my fifth day back in Seattle, home from South Korea.  This post regards being home, missing friends, Christmas, and the future of my brog!!! f’n go!

But before I get all feelings and gushings about my Seoul friends, let me Christmas extravaganza you…to death

My birthday, the 22nd was something similar to the longest day of my life.  Over the course of those 50 hours, I not only had a complete daylight thingy, but then went to Hongdeh (for the last time!?!), rang in midnight with everyone I care about, went clubbing at SkaII?!?, saw Jake and Amy bust this move:
went home at 5AM to my little ramshackle hole in the wall (literally) hasook jib to pack, went to the airport, 10 hour flight, parents house, laundry, then parents christmas party, then more booze and shots of Danish Aquavit with the adults, seeing all my friends from home, and then to my first bar (a dive near the house), all within the span of one long awakeness.  By Seattle, everything was just delerium though.

The holiday bustle real quick like:

21 trick candles.  Funny, funny guys.

Star, I ate your kind!  im sorry..

Yo, it was awesome to see everyone, even though I was just tripping balls on this tiredness the whole time.  What’s new, I’m pretty sure I’m actually insane, blahghkghkghkhkgkhg, Hannah quick kill meeee

Dad.

LOVE SHOTS with our mom’s.  Patty especially enjoys the Aquavit.

NOW THEN (tune this out if you’re not in on the whole Korea thing):

Oh god oh god oh god oh my god I miss you my chingus from Seoul. Really really f’ing miss you all. I am going to name check those of you whom I miss most, so that you can all feel good about yourselves as you see your names published on the internets. I miss you Angelica because you’re what, I dont even know, soo f’ing cool?! I miss you multiple times a day, Pleasebemyfriend!  Hannah, you let me threaten to kill you and take it in stride and tell me you love me because of it. Pat goddamit I’ll see you all the time after these short few months.  We became like bros, not like bad bros, but you know in like 4weeks, ,so this is for life.  I love you.  Let’s get together with PC Bang Yuja and switch off either nightly or weekly, depending on our day-to-day bodily need. Seth is a life friend.  He is a magical person with magical powers.  Ill see you in New York like right quick.  Jake is too cool for belief, anywhere I went with you, no matter how lame, I felt reassured that it was worth it to be hearing what you had to say about it, or just chill with you. Amy’s laughing and mannerisms, these I miss like I missed good bacon cheeseburgers when we were in Seoul.  Please come on the bike trip this summer.  Oh please oh please! Katharina you are so willing to experience life, it was very refreshing to have you building momentum.  You know how much I like momentum…and your Austrian sister Silvia is redonkulous.  “I LOVE it”, “I HATE it”, come on.  Dont leave me! no NO, oh god.  Peter you share yourself with everyone, in your postings, and with any freaking dude who comes up to you on the street saying that they’re lonely.  You too I will see very soon.  Good luck in the Shigol.  Crystal you crazy bitch, everyone’s intimidated by you, but not me.  I just miss you, smiling, going out, and looking down on me like EVERY TIME YOU LOOK AT ME.  Alex is someone you have to see to believe.  Why do you even like me?  Wait do you like me?…I like you..  Nina wont even actually read this.  I love you.  I have always loved you.  What I’m trying to say is marry me.  I never shared these feelings in person, but I’m confessing them to the four people that will read this: I challenge Charlie to a duel, for your hand.  I will give you the hoovercraft wedding of your dreams.  Anna is the sweetest girl I know.  I will bike to your house and you will cook for me, and drive me around, and I know this, and am so grateful for it!  and of course, Ryo hurry up and come home, everyone misses the s out of you.  Dont make me r you.  so yea. missing is soo stupidly much. It’s stupid. Life stupid; james stupid. jub jub, jame amm stoopid. glubbidy hungry.

Thanks for walking me to the bus stop everyone.  Here it is, the last photo of you all by my omnipresent camera in Korea.

Yea, it’s felt really strange being back.  I’ve read all of you korea people’s postings on this subject, and the facebooking, and I think it is maybe..hard on you all too?  I dont know, whomever’s books I signed, at the time I wasn’t very sad, just kind of going with the flow, and thinking about our future meetings.  I love Seattle, but rain definitely greeted me at the airport, and hasn’t stopped since.  I feel strangely suffocated here, even though being 21 has opened up a whole new world to me.  F’in Hongdeh man!  And then of course you all.  We only had four months together, you know!  I can’t even believe how close we got in that time::: Korea really gave me hope that there are amazing folks out there, I still really can’t believe it.  I got Skype yo, and though I’m usually bad at keeping up with folks who are out of sight, I’m hoping that was one of the bad Seattle habits that Seoul has swept out of me.  I’m really psyched about our future meetings though, especially if we go to Me-hi-co and some sandy beaches, like I’ve been sayin!  Yea, I don’t know.  Multiple times I crave just kind of our mindless hanging out places, the chilling, more than any other thing.  Ya’lls good company.  But, yea.  We’ll meet again.

Merry christmas, happy hannukah (seth), and good new years.

Oh and real quick, about this?

Tweren’t no thang!  The james abides..

This jamesnewbrain blog’s going to continue forward and back in time simultaneously.  I’m still planing on completing a full account of my Korean travels, and have tons of great photos to share.  So those Korea posts will be back dated, and appear below this post, as its correctly dated with the 28th.   See you all in the next year! seriously…