My body registered its objection to my signing my renewal contract for the last time by a huge rosacea outbreak. This coincided with my Whole 30 diet, no alcohol & no sugar. The no-sugar was the biggest challenge, because it means no added sugar in food, like bacon, or juice, salad dressing, etc.
My body couldn’t have cared less that there was no alcohol or sugar in my diet. There’s a seemingly endless list of foods that can cause breakouts; I’d eliminated a few already. Of course the meds from the dermatologist weren’t really doing anything because I knew it was a food problem, not bacteria or the mites.
So the good news is my skin cleared up within 2 days! The bad news is it’s because I stopped eating red meat. No pork or beef. No bacon. No ground beef. No sundae guk or Korean bbq. We are down to eggs, chicken, & fish. I’m hoping since it took about 1 year for this new sensitivity to come up, I’ll be ok until my contract ends next July & then I can leave this dirty, polluted, infernal continent & never return. Or at least not Eastern Asia-- still like Thailand, & want to visit Angkor Wat, Myanmar, possibly Sri Lanka, & see Japan but that at least can be a weekend trip.
Since I’m not going home for Christmas & have done no traveling, I’d REALLY like to take 4 days to get one of those places crossed off my list before leaving, (UPDATE but of course you already KNOW I booked my ticket to Angkor Wat. It’ll be high tourist season & the dry season so not as lush, but it’s a bucket list item going buh-bye, plus of course another UNESCO World Site to add to the notches).
OH! And in addition to the addition to my food allergens list (hopefully only in Korea), we’re having summer intensive courses, & I have a class! So every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday I teach a class from 9:30 am to 12:00, then the usual 1:30 to 10. It sucks because I now have to cook TWO meals for every day of the week, BUT of course it means extra money, so I’m REALLY glad about that. Probably not that much, but even a little more is great.
So we’ve had addition in my work hours & food allergies (sucky), but also some additional money from summer intensive course (very good). Given the choice, I’d take no extra money & be able to eat the bacon, pork & beef in my freezer. But no one asked me.
Oh one last thing. There’s an adorable-looking cocktail bar 3 doors down from my place I’d been meaning to try. While I was on vacation last week I decided I’d try it on Saturday. Except, it wasn’t open. Because of COURSE IT WASN’T. It WAS open on Sunday, so I stopped then. The guy actually speaks good English & has a good menu-- turns out he was hungover Saturday. It kind of seems like he really just does it for himself & his friends, but it’s a place to go when I need one.
Other than my toilet clogging up last night after I got home from work & still not working as we head into Wednesday (today is Tuesday, & tomorrow’s a holiday), it’s unlikely I’ll be able to use it ‘til Thursday. Because it was getting too easy just doing normal at-home things, I guess. I’ve got gin & there’s a bathroom with a door that locks downstairs so I’m less livid tonight than say this afternoon when the senile old fucktard that is half of our “security” (& the same guy who let my 5kg of chicken breasts sit in the office in summer without telling me I had a package) gave me their even more useless plunger to work at it to no avail. So I’m even fuller of shit than usual (*sad drums*).
