wednesday

the point of yesterday's post about the korean language was that we ugly amerikans cannot do it justice. it is nasal & atonal, but we firstly cannot appreciate this sound and secondly make things worse by attempting to speak it through our wide amerikan palates. when spoken correctly, it's beautiful. the commentators on npr do not speak it correctly when saying pyongyang as if they had a caramel stuck in their collective teeth. that is the point i was trying to make.

went to walmart tonight and it was an utter disappointment. looking for one thing - compression shorts. yeah, yeah. i know. welcome to 1979. whatever! welcome to long distance running is more like it. the compression shorts reduce chafing, okay?? so, walmart has this kind that i really like at a reasonable price, like $6.83. went tonight and found they no longer have that brand. they have a new kind that is $10. okay, not a terrible price, but still - different brand and different price. sort of a foul ball. i picked up a couple pairs and kept looking for the other stuff on my list. pantyhose? check. windshield wipers? um... they have something but it's not the right thing, so that's like another foul ball. pj shorts? stee-rike - nothing. ::sigh:: makeup brush? another foul ball. still working from the list, i go to find the soy milk creamer. another stee-rike. i've never played baseball, but this was enough fouls & strikes & stuff to count me o-u-t. i set down the basket, took the pantyhose, grabbed a powerade zero, checked thru the u-scan, and left. spent like 45 mins to conduct a 5 min transaction. zoinks! really need to remember to quit going there.

gotta go find some compression shorts online. i will be sure & let you know how the saga plays out.