Uncreated Conscience

I can’t believe I’ve only blogged twice in September. What happened to the days when I used to blog twice per day? Yeesh. Anyway, continuing on this trend of not blogging about books, I’m going to post pictures from last night’s dinner instead.

Chuseok dinner! Psychic Roommate and I made japchae and hobak jeon.

Last night was Chuseok, or the Harvest Moon festival, sometimes referred to as the Korean thanksgiving. My mother texted me to remind me to go eat some songpyeon, which put me in a nostalgic mood. I resolved to go get some after work, which then turned into a resolve to cook.

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Dear internet, I don’t believe I had adequately acquainted you with my mother. Like any mother-daughter pair, we’ve gone through some strife, but thankfully we managed to survive my melodramatic teenage years with our relationship intact and stronger than ever. It probably doesn’t hurt that the older I get, the more I realize we’re pretty much the same person. We even look like clones.

Like mother, like daughter.

Also, she is funny. And smart. And quite possibly a spy. (I’m not kidding about that. And no, I still don’t know to this day.)

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

- Oscar Wilde

Stylish, snarky, vivacious, beautiful, and intelligent, I want to be this woman when I grow up. Some hilarious exchanges beneath the cut.

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Wow, from an extended blogging silence to two posts in a day? Is the apocalypse nigh?

Anyway, two things for you! The first is a video I dubbed for the Oslo Freedom Forum. The speaker is a North Korean defector talking about his time in a gulag…in a girl’s voice. (The material is serious, but I couldn’t resist.) Can I just say that dubbing is much more difficult than I thought?

Trying to keep the flavor of the Korean language + trying to make it sound closer to idiomatic English + keeping the timing more or less together = REALLY, REALLY HARD. That’s why my voice sounds so monotone; I had to try and figure out how best to phrase things while keeping in time with the speaker, so modulating my voice just wasn’t going to happen.

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