so! what's done on today's to-do list?

I've crossed off the list items that are done, and I've noted TONIGHT to the items I'll do tonight. Easy, right?

1. Visit the bank and send $500 to my US account.
2. Visit my real-estate office and sign the new rental contract. New, higher rent kicks in next month (W770,000 from W735,000). Boy, I'm really looking forward to that.
3. Visit the local police station and see about (a) getting fingerprinted, (b) keeping a copy of the fingerprint document to send (or scan and send) to the US FBI, and (c) getting a copy of my local criminal background check. But I have to go back.
4. Get a haircut. It's been six weeks.
5. Find and gather documents to send to the US State Department (basically, my diplomas and, eventually, a copy of my FBI background check) to get apostilled so I can apply for other university work in Korea. TONIGHT
6. Take a walk. Lift some weight. TONIGHT
7. Work on my movie-review book. I'm close to finishing the main ms. TONIGHT

I sent only $300 to the States. The real-estate office charged me W100,000 to sign my new contract; the fuckers keep bleeding me dry. The local police station told me I needed to bring along several extra items to get the fingerprinting and background check done: my ID card (which I had), my passport (which I also had), and two passport-size photos (which I didn't have). Since tomorrow is apparently a day off for that office, I'll go back on Wednesday.

Finding and gathering documents will probably take a while, so I'll work on that tonight and over the next few days. Lifting weights will happen after I finish this blog post. Working on the book ms will happen once I'm done lifting weights.

I'm still bothered because I don't know where that sudden backache had come from. Most lower-back problems come from things like a weak core, muscle imbalances (maybe you tend to carry heavy stuff on only one side), and skeletal misalignments that arise from any number of causes. I've been trying very hard to treat my core well, and it usually treats me well in return. But something went wrong a few days ago, and it went wrong for a distressingly long time, and whenever a problem arises and disappears with no hint as to why it happened in the first place, I get paranoid.

Righto. Work to do.