this past week on tuesday and thursday i had the unique experience of working three different jobs in one day. it all started as usual with teaching english to my elementary school students in the early part of the day. then after that i took the subway and then a bus to rough draft, where i'm helping them get up to speed on flash animation for the upcoming series they'll be working on. so far, nothing new there, that's what i've been doing the past month or so on mondays, tuesdays, and thursdays.

after that i took the subway to myongdong to help my friend jinny with the seoul animation festival that's coming up in less than two weeks. just she asked me to do a few weeks ago, i watched some films with english dialogue and transcribed the script so someone after me can translate it into korean for subtitles. each night i started around 8:00p and finished around 10:30p. on tuesday i was actually pretty tired by the end of it, but for some reason on thursday i was in a really good mood and didn't feel tired all day.

when koreans are in a situation like this where they have a lot to do and might not feel like they have the energy, they tell each other or sometimes themselves, fighting! so that's what i did and of course it wasn't bad at all, actually it was kind of fun.

working the three jobs in one day made me remember that classic sketch on in living color called hey mon. it was about a jamaican family who all had multiple jobs, the lazy son had only eight jobs.

on tuesday at rough draft while i was giving my flash lecture, some people on a tour of the studio came in. i quickly recognized one of the women as kara vallow, producer of the fox animated shows the family guy and american dad. back in 1999 when i was a junior at calarts, she gave me my first animation job ever as a character layout trainee on the dilbert animated series. later i worked for her again on the henrgy darger documentary in the realms of the unreal. and it was pretty unreal bumping into her like that in korea. we chatted for a few minutes about the dilbert days and some of the people we'd worked with on it and if we'd seen or talked to them lately. then she was off and i went back to the flash class. really made the world feel smaller, but i know that's just because it happened within the confines of the animation world, which i'm convinced is about five hundred people tops. to tie it all together even more, one of the korean guys on the flash team also worked on dilbert back in the day.

i hope you enjoyed this post, especially since this is the second time i had to write it. i'm at the tokyo airport waiting for my flight to hawaii that isn't for another two hours and stupid internet explorer crashed and lost what i wrote. thanks to yahoo! for the free internet access, but why aren't you using firefox?