Unfortunately, I was unable to see "Supersize Me" before I left for Korea. However, in place of watching the movie, I decided to start my own miniexperiment.

I have been gorging myself on McDonalds for ... close to 10 (work) days straight now for lunch. And I have yet to gain a pound from it. So, my own "experiment" is working out quite fine right now. And I'm still not sick of the McDonald's here (for some reason, some parts of the meal are better here... while some things, like french fries, are much much worse).

So last Wednesday, me and Jonathan were eating at the McDonald's here, when we both noticed one of the girls who worked there was very cute. We both commented, and dropped the subject. That day, one of my co-workers (the shir-jang-neem, or the Vice Principal sort of) mentioned that she had seen me eating at McDonald's quite often (I think that was Day 5 or something) ... and I jokingly replied that I was going there because of the hot girl.

Well, the joke has somewhat snowballed. This morning, one of the teachers (Patricia) ended up telling HER class, and then all MY classes found out (this is the "small workplace corollary to a rumor:" when you work in a small place, everybody finds out a rumor very very fast). So the 7th/8th graders I used to teach (before they split the morning SAT classes into two classes, so I had to take them both) were coming up to me going, "DO YOU REALLY LIKE A GIIIRRRLLL?"

I'm just playing along, and to cut a lengthy story short ... basically everyone was making fun of me. And naturally everyone became curious as to this "mystery girl" ... and how hot was she? What horrible tastes did Roy have in women? Did it match his horrible fashion sense and his total lack of humor? THEY MUST FIND OUT.

So one of the 7th and 8th graders (Kyungjun) followed me to McDonald's and we had lunch ... but like I had suspected, the girl no longer worked at the McDonald's. So he was totally dissappointed.

As I'm eating, two kids from my morning SAT classes pass by. I'm like, "What the heck are you two doing here?" They're like, "We're here to see your girl, but we didn't notice anybody hot today." They jokingly said that they thought I had meant the older woman who worked there as the object of my "affection."

Oh, the kids crack me up.

But the local McDonald's should give me some money for commission for getting so many of my students to eat at McDonalds. And I know for all the kids that went, I know at least the same amount walked by and peered in...