Tuesday, March 22, 2011
INTERNAL ALARM
I woke up on time this morning.
2:55.
And I was awake. All the way.
So I went to the gym.
Yesterday, when I slept late, I thought a sign that I should take the week off.
And I am glad that I did not take time out. I got quite enough guff for being out one day from my friends.
And I saw an old friend, Chuck. Just a minute or two there but that was enough to reconnect well.
It felt good to be back after all of three days out. The normal two day weekend plus Monday.
I don't work that hard. The idea of getting a rest is ludicrous.
I would gain three pounds and be unhappy every morning and a lot of the day.
The other thing is that I read on the bike and would miss my latest, I am really liking it, Your Republic is Calling You which is about a North Korean mole living in South Korea who, after twenty years, has gotten notice that he must come back and to rendezvous in 24 hours.
He has a wife and a life, a history. He has not been an active spy for a very long time since his minder and the string he was on was purged.
It is a mild thriller and is full of interesting shit on spy craft as well as Korean culture in the north and south.
It takes place in 24 hours with many flashbacks as well as the concurrent activities of his wife, daughter and a hapless SoKo intelligence guy who has finally traced our hero down.
Very good. Tasty.
Young-Ha Kim. An up and coming South Korean writer who, while writing in Korean, has a very contemporary American voice. And why not. South Korean is very westernized.
