The Korean Planner

Today I purchased my last morning coffee of the year. Because I have a earned enough e-stickers to get a free planner from Starbucks. I did this last year and I absolutely loved having it with me on my desk to organize my life at work. It's not as awesome as buying a $40 hat or t-shirt and getting a free case of beer (most people look at it the other way around, I choose not to) but it's free. And everyone loves free!

I opened it up to find the monthly calendar pages at the front like the old one so I started penciling in my vacation dates and when my parents are coming to Korea. I kept flipping through and noticed that there are no week by week pages! It's thirteen full calendar pages and then the rest is blank paper, lined paper, and historical facts about Starbucks. I guess it's my fault for not looking inside the sample book, at the same time it should have been called a journal, not a planner. Then the second half of these not pages are dedicated to sketches even though there's a faded line going across the pages. Super bummed about this investment. This might be a little exaggerated, but I imagine it would feel like doing a scavenger hunt, winning the scavenger hunt and receiving a keg of beer... "Oh wait, it's empty."    

I'm just happy I've lost an eagerness to organize my life in a notebook. That might change with the new school year, even though all the other player remain the same, but at the same time, it's Korea, I know I'm shipping out in August I just don't know where yet. All in all Starbucks has really let me down.

Maybe this is karma for that post about Friday the 13th being just another day on my monthly calendar. Mid-morning breakthrough! At least I didn't order someone to kill an innocent woman that would, presumably, rat on me since I'm accountable for distributing unregistered automatic weapons, one of which was used in a school shooting killing four children, this woman's son being one of them, Jax Teller. That would lead to some pretty intense karma you would think.

On that note: If you haven't started watching Sons of Anarchy already, start now. With some patience, you won't regret it. Hooray for streaming! Netflix in the US has it too.