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I don't mean to say that I've never shared laughter with my co-workers and students and friends here before. Of course I have. But these past two weeks I've been having a lot of shared hysterical laughter with my new department-mates, which has never happened before. Yena's always been in my department, but I Young-Gyung and U Young-Hee moved into my department for the new year (replacing Park Mi-Ran and Im Kyung-Hwa). We already knew each other, but sharing the same office space presumably brought another layer of comfort.

Skipping, awkwardness, the Korean verb for "to lick," and melodramatic hand gestures are involved. I think I've let out another layer of weird, and that's a relief. We'll never be able to talk about rimming, but it's nice to make weird faces at each other. The first time it happened I was so happy, I didn't realize how much I'd missed the kind of red-faced-can't-stop laughter that is normally reserved for skype-biffles.

I think I'll be happy in Park Mi-Ran's relative absence from my life. Spending my school life next to her was a little oppressive.