Verkhovensky’s Internals

To Dwell is to Garden

January 21, 2007

For the Voyeurs - Profile

If you’ve made your way to this blog, then chances are that you already know me, and I therefore don’t need to waste another keystroke for your benefit.

On the other hand, there is a slight chance that you’ve followed the candy trail and have clicked on this link with the intention to solicit personal information from me. I am, in that case, willing to oblige.

I’m from Canada but for the past year or so I have dug my heels into Asian soil, making Seoul my primary location of residence while I educate a cross-section of the Korean population in the ways of a Westerner. Relative to the academic requirements of the job, I’m somewhat over-educated, but then again the academic requisites themselves are probably overkill insofar as a good part of my responsibilities consist of playing musical chairs and leading sing-alongs for small children.

Other than that I travel a little, read a little online and off, listen to the best music I can find, and consume a respectable percentage of the national production of beer. I also amuse myself with this little blog.If you’re so inclined, you can reach me here: peter_verkhovensky@yahoo.ca.

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I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I an an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can’t explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfctly well aware that I cannot “pay out” the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don’t consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well - let it get worse!

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posted by Peter at 5:04 pm