Monday, June 30

A quiet day. Read, did remote work, napped. The usual.

The weather report keeps calling for rain every day, so I don’t make any plans to go do anything…and then it doesn’t rain. Annoying.

Tuesday, July 1

Some progress in my coffee shop. A table and stools. The thing that looks like a refrigerator case in the back is really just the reflection of the convenience store across the street.

Ooh. Today I paid my last full month’s rent here. I’ll only be here one week in August.

And now I have to start doing all my getting-ready-to-wrap-up-here-and-leave-Korea things. Which is very sad.

Wednesday, July 2

Slept.

Thursday, July 3

Slept.

Seriously, how much can one person sleep? I sleep all night, then I can easily nap for another 3, 4, 5 hours during the day.

Friday, July 4

It’s interesting how quickly you forget about your native holidays once you move away. Obviously, they are not celebrating Independence Day (or any American holiday) here…and the Korean holidays are pretty meaningless to me…so that’s an aspect of living abroad that I don’t think anyone thinks about until you experience it yourself. you lose holidays.

I had lunch today with Jun, my Korean tutor. A Goodbye Thanks for Everything lunch. That was bittersweet.

It was also the first time I’ve left the building since Sunday.

Five weeks šŸ™

Saturday, July 5

I poked my head outside this morning thinking maybe I’d go out but nope. It’s hot and disgusting.

I had a horrific dream last night – without going into much detail (which is emblazoned inside my dream eyelids), the part that was bad was two young girls cruely abusing a horse. That’s all i’ll say cuz it was BAD…and kept me up the rest of the night trying to find all the pretty things on my phone to bury that image. But why WHY would I dream that?? Why is THAT what’s going on in my subconscious?? Any dream interpreters here?

I got a rush request on one of my remote work mailing lists so when I wasn’t reading or napping, I worked on that.

Sunday, July 6

I’m going to miss my window view.

Oh I am kick kick kicking myself today! While I have my Japan airbnb booked already for Nov-Dec, i had not yet committed to a room in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I plan to be in Jan-Feb (2026). I’ve had one saved that I liked, was in budget, had a full kitchen and a balcony and actual desk/office chair…but it doesn’t have a good cancellation policy. I feel like most of the places I look at, you can cancel almost right up to your check-in date. Like, the Japan room, I check in Nov 1, I can cancel for a full refund up until Oct 2. Not that I expect to cancel, but my life and the world are a little…unpredictable right now. So I kept holding off cuz I didn’t want to put that charge on my card still six months out, who knows what the next six months could bring? What body part could break next?

So every day I would check in and go oh phew good it’s still available.

You know where this is going.

Last night when I checked…someone had booked the room for two of my eight weeks šŸ™Ā  And yes, it seems a simple solution: just stay somewhere else the first two weeks…but that has consequences. Airbnb rewards booking in 30 day increments. 30, 60, 90…and by shortening my stay by two weeks I lost my optimal rate and now the room was more per day, PLUS, I had to book another room for just two weeks, also at higher day rate. I’m going to be paying almost as much for two weeks in the new one as one month would have been at the other! Ugh. Plus, I had to start my search all over…briefly considered doing one month and one month in the two different places…but I just didn’t like any other place as much as the original one.

Then I thought, well, if I have to move to a second locationĀ anyway, why not stay in an entirely different part of Thailand and have two totally different experiences. Until I realized how BIG Thailand really is and how much the additional cost would be to get from Location 1 to Location 2. I could even stay in Japan two weeks longer (since I won’t have met my 90-day max) and then just go directly to the second (original) Thai airbnb, but Japan is more expensive and Jan-Feb are supposed to be my cheap months. Ugh.

What was I JUST saying about missed opportunities and regret??

Three. Hours. Later.

I got my Thai housing all sorted out and am booked into two airbnbs for the two months. I hated putting all that on the card right now but waiting just makes me lose opportunity.

And that week’s a wrap. Sorry so boring. Things will start picking up once I hit the One Month To Go mark cuz there’s stuff I GOTTA do.

See ya later luv ya bye.

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