Monday, August 08, 2011

Mountains


This picture was taken on my last day of work. After all of those days of staring out the window and dreaming of flying away to the mountains in the distance, I am finally free to fly away and it feels so good. 


I climbed one of the mountains and this is the view from the top. I'm staring into the city - at the building where I used to work. 





Liberating. 

Friday, August 05, 2011

Panic Attack with Justin Bieber


There is so much to say but I can’t seem to coherently gather my thoughts together. Over the past few days I started to think about how I would put together my first blog post as an unemployed person on my “Corporate Korea” blog.

Last month during my last business trip to SF I had a panic attack, of all places, on the airplane, in the middle of the flight as others surrounding me were peacefully sleeping. Thankfully my sister was sitting next to me, sleeping like a rock to my avail. I woke her up and vented my feelings. She quickly helped me with some therapy (she’s a counselor in the making) and picked me up and got me laughing within minutes. Crying, laughing, craziness galore. This kind of behavior gives you rainbow colored pubes (so my mother says.)

Overwhelmed with personal/work/future/moving out of the apt and korea/lack of sleep etc, etc, the stress piled on high enough to topple over in several directions. It was time to either sink or swim and I sank. It was rather annoying because it came out of nowhere and at the time I had no idea why I was feeling so crazy. Even watching the Justin Bieber movie was too stressful for me to handle. I didn’t sleep a wink during the flight and rigidly held on to the armrests as my sanity felt like it was swirling out of control.  Fuckign Justin Bieber. I love you.

I’m better now, though I am currently suffering from a very separate life altercation which I will elaborate on later.