Today we were walking along the sidewalk behind a group of people, one of which was a little girl. She was holding her dad's (or older brother's) hand in the back of the group and kept looking behind us to wave and smile. Whenever we smiled or waved back, she got excited and jumped a bit before turning and (presumably) relating the story to her dad. It was adorably cute and she reminded me strongly of the Korean kids that would recognize us in the streets as "waeguking" (foreigners) and yell "Hello!", "Who are you!" (not a question), and (once, from an older man in a park in late Spring), "Merry Christmas!". There's globalization for ya, eh?
On the other hand, there's much more disturbing results from the seemingly ever-shrinking size of world... I'm currently sitting at a posessed computer that won't let me do what I want. In fact, the 2 windows of Internet Explorer I just opened have decided that they must procreate to save their race... Now there are 31 windows, none of which actually function. (I'm writing this in my journal from a cautious 2-foot distance). Let's see. "cerrar grupo?" Maybe? No, clearly that just threatens the lot of them and they're ganging up with MSN Messenger (which I didn't open).
I would really appreciate a Firefox browser right about now. Why do the crappiest products achieve worldwide monopolies? Coca Cola, McDonalds, Internet explorer... It's stronger proof for a higher (and corresponding evil) power at work in the world than anything else I've seen.
(...Except perhaps for certain political careers, but I'm not going to get into that right now.) Okay, giving up on the computer. I shall internet (now in verb flavor!) another day.
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