Less desperate times, kinda unsure about the measures

So, yeah, it's official - I'm trying my hardest to get a job teaching English in South Korea. It's an idea that's been sitting around in the back of my mind for the past few years, and now seems like the right time to resort to/try for it.

It wasn't my first choice. Option A was teaching English in Costa Rica. Option B was trying to be a middle school teacher here. So, yeah, I guess you could say this is option C. But, who knows, maybe it was the best option all along.

You see, I couldn't get a job teaching here in Austin for a myriad of reasons, some of them my fault, and others not my fault at all, just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At first I was upset a little. Then I thought about teaching English in Asia, something I'd been considering for a while. All the previous excuses and lame reasons not to had somehow disappeared, and all I was left with was the prospect of a good paying job in a far away country, an opportunity to do some major self-improvement, and a strong desire to ditch Austin as quickly as possible.

So, here I stand, on the precipice of a ridge overlooking a valley bathed in a mountain's shadow of a peak next to a pass that we sometimes refer to as "change."

Believe me, it's not that daunting. In fact, if it weren't to happen, I would be bummed out of my mind. To me, Austin is the girl that I don't like but that refuses to stop stalking me, and Korea is this girl I've known of for a while and it just suddenly hit me that maybe I should ask her out for a cup of coffee or lunch, or maybe a date to a roller rink.

The brutal truth of the matter is that, in fact, I did ask her out. I was unsure at first, but then she said "yes" in the form of a gazillion recruiters who all want me to work for them.

So, where are we at now? Well, I sent away all these important documents to a place called Busan, and they got there, and now I'm waiting for an email so I can drive down to the Korean Embassy in Houston and get my visa.

Then what? Well, I head out to start my year-long contract at the beginning of October, hopefully getting rid of miscellaneous items like my car, phone contract, gym membership, and a bunch of other things that tie me down, like my computer speakers, basketball, and half-gallon of shampoo (yeah, I shop at Costco).

Of course, until I start my first day of work in a time zone that's 14 hours ahead of us, I'm not gonna say it's finalized. My visa could not go through, there could be some kind of issue with the school...who knows.

I guess all I'm saying is that I'm at this point in my life where I've considered a lot of different options, both during and after college, and for right now, I'm gonna give this a shot and see where it takes me (can anyone say 'Colombia'?).