The day before yesterday I did not upload with the correct settings. I was displeased with my pic, so maybe it was psychological. However, now it doesn't look so bad to me.
I have noticed these daily pics reflect my mood, thoughts and desires like a dream might. The day I took this picture I felt hopeless, but reflecting now I can see beneath that there was hope. I cannot really want something without hoping, and there was something I have been wanting so much.
Today has been such a huge day for me, even though I haven't left the house and have just done work all day long. I went forward with emailing my prospective advisor about my dissertation topic on Korean literature, and he agreed to supervise this dissertation. Korean literature, and Hallyu 1.0, topics so important to me, will be legitimated as part of my scholarly identity. I feel like today is a kind of spiritual wedding day for my scholarly career (although the dissertation defense will more literally be that). My goal is to become a professor of Korean literature and that dream, as of today, is much closer. Almost fatefully, I happened to see this Soom Super Gem Girl sculpt that the vendor posted on Den of Angels. I was not in any danger of forgetting the elements of Korean imaginaries that make my blood run cold and my heart drop into the pit of my stomach. "Gross beauty," I have called it, but I really mean it in the nicest way. A number of Edgar Alla...
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