I THINK I BROKE MY ANKLE - SHIT!

I THINK THESE BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO KILL ME. 5th TIME I HAVE BEEN HIT BY ONE OF THESE ASSHOLES. THEY DRIVE THEIR CYCLES ON THE SIEEWALK.

OUCH....

JUST WHINING. KELLY

FFFF: FRAZIER FINALLY FUCKING FREE!!!!! PEACE/PIECE:

DONE WITH PAGODA. WOW. WHAT A FUCKING RELIEF. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 3 MONTHS I AM IN A GOOD MOOD THAT DOES NOT FEEL LIKE A GOOD DAY. THE WEIGHT OF THE PLACE WAS LIKE AN ANCHOR. THIS NEW JOB WILL NOT BE ALL ROSES, BUT I FINALLY GET A CHANCE FOR PERSONAL SATISFACTION. THE TRUTH IS THAT DESPITE ALL THE HOOPLA, I WAS BASICALLY AN ENGLISH TEACHER...BASIC GRAMMAR AND PRONUNCIATION. WONDERFUL, BEATIFUL AND AMBITIOUS PEOPLE. I LOVED THEM.

THE ONLY CHALLENGE WAS MAKING IT INTO WORK. HAVING 7-8 HOURS WORTH OF WORK SPREAD OUT OVER 15 HOURS EVERY GODDAMN DAY. IT IS LIKE WORKING 15 HOURS, BUT ONLY BEING PAID HALF OF THE TIME. I WAS ALWAYS TIRED AND ALWAYS AT HALF ENERGY.

I WILL KNOW FOR SURE BY THE END OF THE YEAR, BUT MY GOAL OF MAKING 6 FIGURES A YEAR LOOKS LIKE REALITY.

PAY:

• $60,000 BASE ANNUAL (6% INCOME TAX!)
• 10% OF CLASS PROFITS (? $10,000 ? )
• $1000 FOR EACH STUDENT THAT PASSES EACH DECEMBER. I WILL BE GIVEN 100 STUDENTS A YEAR TO PREP. IF 30% PASS, I HIT THE $100,000 MARK.

CRAZY:

• NOVEMBER 2005 - LIVING IN MY MOM'S BASEMENT
• DECEMBER 2005 - LIVING IN SEOUL MAKING $2000 A MONTH
• MAY 2006 - CONTRACT SIGNED FOR APPROX. $100,000 A YEAR
• JOB: BRINGING FIRST US LAW SCHOOL TO KOREA IN HISTORY!!!

THE LAST TIME I ENDED UP LIVING WITH MY PARENTS I MADE IT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL...BUT IT TOOK 5 YEARS AND I ONLY GOT UP TO $60,000.

DON'T TELL MOM. SHE MAY WANT TO START HOUSING ME ON COMMISSION.

PEACE YA'LL. I IZ GOING SHOPPIN SHOPPIN SHOPPIN AND JOINING A GYM TODAY. PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PEACE/PIECE:

OF EARTH

OF THE PIE

NEXT: OF ASS

MY LAST CLASS!!!! HISTORY CORRECTED! 042806

I hope these guys don't have to take any entrance exams soon. If you think this is bad you should have been there for the class where I taught about the origin of the world. Three words: IN MY PANTS. Sometimes I simply stated "I got your universe hangin'."

4/21/06: 30 Days to 40! My "Jamie Lee Curtis" Photo Shoot

In Korean you are 1 when you are born. Very cool when you are waiting for legal drinking age, but it sucks at this age.

By family bloodline I have about 25 years
left. If I die like an average Frazier male I have 30 years tops.

Everybody asked for recent picture. I respected Jamie Lee Curtis for doing that photo shoot with no makeup or airbrush so I took a pic at 5:45 am right out of bed & shower. I'm not killing time...time's killing me.

Update on new job soon. Ending Pagoda tomorrow. Must sleep. UGGGG I want a life back.

Peace. KDF

JOURNAL UPDATE 4/16/06: MY NEW JOB

Well, the smoke clears and we find our hero with his name on the dotted line. I start as a full professor May 1, 2006. It is a confidential agreement, but between you and me (and the world), I am confident I am doing better than I was in the US.

WHAT THE HELL IS KELLY'S NEW JOB?

I. HOW I GOT HERE:

In January I decided the books I had to use in class were bad. I discovered there was a US Bar Association Approved Law Program. It offered a Masters and not a Doctorate.

I sent them an email offering to use their law books as the basis for my own set of books on legal English. They responded by requesting a meeting.

Dr. Kim saw my resume and met me. He immediately decided he wanted me to be a front man in his new plan. His goal is to bring the first Doctorate Law Program to Korea which is approved by the US Bar Association.

THIS IS WHAT I WILL BE DOING:

1) Preparing Korean attorneys for the Law School Entrance Tests (LSAT)

2) Helping Korean legal staff write and read legal English.

3) Set up about 10 law schools in the US partner schools

4) These schools will take about 5-10 English speaking Korean attorneys.

5) The goal of these attorneys is to expand their license to the US.

I MUST:

A) Find the law schools willing to partner up with us

B) Work with a Harvard Professor to set up a program

C) Personally teach the attorneys taking LSAT and BAR tests

D) Approximately 100 Students per year

E) $1000 per student who passes the test after my class + salary

F) Saturdays I teach executives from the 3 biggest companies in Korea.

G) I will teach them to give "presentations" at business conferences.

H) Write my own books on Legal English

I) Prepare my own lectures on LSAT and Bar Exam

J) Duties as assigned

This may sound like a bitch, but I have been working from 7am -10pm for $2000 a month. Sure I only lecture 7 of those 15 hours, but face it, what do you do with an hour break. If you had to work an 8 hour every other hour for 16 hours wouldn't you be pissed? That is my life. So I simply do not see the hours as a challenge.

So, as of 5/1 this is my life. I came here with the assumption of giving up on the law and ever having a good salary again. Suddently in 6 months I ended up helping lead the charge of bringing the very first US approved Law Doctorate Program into Seoul. The first such program in Korean history. If we succeed I truly believe that our project will end up in a Korean history book.

Of course the day to day life is rarely forseeable so I am sure there will be some hurdles, but it is a noble cause and will be much more rewarding for me on a daily basis. Though I teach adults the reality is that I teach high school level English. It is fun but I long for a bigger challenge.

Peace out. KDF

ODE TO MJ 041106

The smoke clears.
Writers write.
Stream of thought, structure or is it all rhetoric?
I don't give a shit.
I want MJ back, that is it.

Stone in a hubcap
Rattles my head
I wheeled her to a hole
With not God to raise the dead

Who moves the dead?
Morticians?
Palm bearers?

I was tanned in my youth
A sun transcended light years to ripen me
I am the fruit of a vine ripened by a dead sun
And I had to carry a star in my hands
I buried my light in the ground
In a nice square box
On the edge of my home town

MJ is gone
And another stone has been found
God gives you an anchor
And dares you not to drown

My MJ is not home
That is not profound
I wish that I could thank her
But her ears are in the ground
I am left with one dead fact
I have monkeys resurrectint on my back
Evolution, devolution: no answer found
But I feel my monkeys drag me to her ground

They put me in her my hands
Only once should a parent bear a daughter
Did your God baptize me?
Or throw me in the water?
My heart and hands are empty
I wish I could have caught her

Her light was all that made me ripe
It is not baptismal water
It is now dew, it's tears I wipe
I was putty to her potter

I feel just like a lump of clay
She followed me like sun and day

Without her I don't know what to solve
Without her I fear that I'll dissolve

Will I dissolve Into the water?
I wish I could have caught her
I miss her so much, I could baptize
The world with tears that flood my eyes

I miss you MJ
You were my only sun
You made me feel OK
I would accept the shame of faith
For the promise of your embrace
I would trade my soul for just one more day

Ode to MJ
Sufficient words I lack
I would bear the shame of faith
If God or Satan could bring you back

My soul, my light, no beauty dawn
No sunrise when the sun is gone
Sobriety just makes me yawn.

No diamond, gold or wealth profound
The only thing that shined for me
Is in a box in my home town
I hope you know our love must be
I put your gravestone in my heart
Please sink with me

And if cold stone granite brings me down
I know I'll find you,
Like you MJ
My heart is underground

Ode to MJ
In heaven fly or hell I burn
I'd give it all for her return

MJ has left the building

THE BLOSSOM OF TECHNOLOGY?

JUST A BLOCK AWAY THE VINES OF TECHNOLOGY BLOSSOM.

I SHALL NOT COMPLAIN: PIRATED MUSIC AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT;

GOD BLESS THE INABILITY TO ENFORCE IP PROPERTY RIGHTS

THE COLONGE OF SPRING 041106

RIGHT AT THE END OF MY STREET.

THE SWEET AROMA HITS YOU ABOUT 30 METERS BACK

(SORRY Approx. 90 feet ... Metric is so much more efficient)

SPRING IN SEOUL PART II 041106

THIS IS THE FIRST THING I SAW THIS MORNING. A KISS FROM SEOUL

SPRING IN SEOUL - PINK

SPRING IN SEOUL - WHITE

LAST MONTH IN PAGODA....& SEOUL? 4/5/06

I submitted my resignation at Pagoda. I may be starting as a professor at a nice University. I have not made up my mind. Personality conflicts and cultural misunderstandings are an issue with me. I don't know which ones to take personal and which ones to take as a cultural misunderstanding.

CONS:

• I turned off my mobile phone for 9 hours and was treated as if I had stolen family jewelry.
• I am told what to eat and not to talk at the table
• I am forced to sit in meetings that last an hour and are spoken entirely in Koreanand I am not told what the meetings are about
• I am told to meet on a very important issue and end up spending 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon so that I can have a 10 minute lunch, a 2 minute introduction of me in English & than a 30 minute Korean lecture. All other time was sitting in a hallway while he spoke to secretaries and on the phone
• I expect no less than 15 calls a day changing plans
• A great deal of the above will remain likely remain unchanged

PROS:

• I love Dr. Kim as a person and I know he means no harm
• I am pretty sure I'll end up rich
• The education mission is honorable and well financed
• They already got me to quit my current job, so I need a job
• My positive energy will double when I leave Pagoda
• What the fuck, it's different

I'll let you know whether Ying or Yang takes this one

For now I just feel yanked.

Peace. KDF