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I could have had a really shitty day, because of this one remark that was very, very incorrect:
"꼭 라스트 미닛까지 미뤄두는 이유가 있나요?"
the damn text message was delivered in two separate messages.
미뤄두다니?
미뤄둔다 my ass, you self-centered workaholic woman!
You just said only three days ago "한나씨는 항상 빨리빨리 해 주니까 고마워요?"
What the hell???
You think just because I quit my full-time job, I would spend all day and every day grading your lousy students' tests?
Hello, unlike you, I have a summer vacation that I am very well entitled to enjoy to its fullest,
and unlike you, I have a family to go on a vacation with,
and unlike you, I have a grandmother who wants to spend time with me,
and unlike you, dealing with little brats with their hopeless English is not my raison d'etre!
I TOLD YOU very clearly that I was going away on a family vacation for the past three days, and thus I wouldn't be able to meet the deadline this week.
and it was YOU, you 정신머리없는 pathetic paranoid frantic bony little woman, not to worry because the tests were coming in on Wednesday, not Monday!
So here I am, stuck all day from morning to night (and it looks like I will have to stay up for most of tonight as well) grading stupid exams. (If she runs off without paying me, I am so going to sue her.)

But
my one source of joy (??? or more like hope) was a picture a friend sent me this morning.
A picture of her cousin whose mom wants me for a daughter-in-law.
(I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to say EWW! and run away or laugh a 'ladylike' laugh going 호호호.)
He's all right, looks younger than I thought he would be ( I thought he was older than I am... I know we have the same birthday, but were we born in the same year as well? That I never asked). He looks smart, cleanly, no-nonsense. He's studying to become an accountant, what could I expect? -_- (Okay, MY cousin is also studying to be an accountant, but he's a supercool hip-hop DUDE and has a girlfriend who looks like Minnie Mouse.) He kind of looks like a guy I almost had a crush on in my final days at high school.. This guy who skipped class one Friday afternoon because I asked him to come and have lunch with me. The guy who went to the navy and came back taller, darker, more manly. The guy who moved out and now lives in his own apartment since last year and thus cooks for himself (and judging from the pics he posted on his blog, he's a pretty good cook now).

I know matches set up by 'the grownups' never work and it's not like "He's so hot, I want to meet him right now!" but
that one picture sort of kept me going throughout my otherwise crappy day,
because it gave me a tint of hope, a last straw I could hold on to,
just the thought that there *might* still be someone 'decent' who was still available,
was comforting...
The thesis that all cute guys are either taken or gay has been proven wrong. Ehehe.