With the arrival of my mom and sister to Korea, I also received two books I ordered from Amazon: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and Charles Barkley's "I May Be Wrong But I Doubt It."

I went through the Barkley book pretty quickly; it's really entertaining and pretty interesting to see the point of view of one of the arguably best power forwards ever to play basketball.

In any case, the reason I mention this is there was one line in the book that just stuck to me; Charles Barkley is writing about a piece of advice Moses Malone told him (I'm paraphrasing because I don't have the book with me right now): "You can work your ass off and you're not guaranteed to make it, but I can guarantee you that if you don't work your ass off, you won't make it."

So true. Life is a crapshoot ... let's hope I got some luck headed my way.

Someone needs to get Charles Barkley blogging. The whole book just screamed as an edited/organized blog. Barkley really has a lot of interesting stuff to say ... SOMEONE, please get Charles Barkley blogging!

In any case, sorry for the lack of responses/posts. They've been working my ass off at the hakwon; I taught for 9 hours today ... including the preparations and grading I had to do...

... yeah, it's been a long day.