Tuesday, November 14, 2006  I'm better at spending my money than
spending my time  Which is why I sell all I can. I only bring it
up because today I sold my weekends. Actually, I sold the heart
out of my Saturdays and Sundays. I'll be doing two hours in a
row on those days, and there's a 2-hour round trip commute
involved, so a good fat 4 hour-plus gash down the middle of each
day. It wasn't an easy decision, but unfortunately, I am not in
a position to refuse any offers for private English lessons. To
my chagrin, my time is worth less to me than it is to quite a
few Korean students of English. I am hard pressed to think of a
period of time that I would not sell. I have left family
gatherings to teach private lessons. I endure a lot of commuting
and chronic pharyngitis due to my never-ending talking. I'm not
complaining, I'm genuinely dazzled by the economics of it all. I
can't afford my own time. But it's not exactly that I can't
afford it. I can't get as much value out of it by myself as I
can by trading it