Karl Disher:  

Life Here is a not so quick overview of what I have been up to over the last 20 years. I actually graduated the Summer of 1983..I had to take Sophomore English for the third time...I really can't stress enough how important gerunds have been in the formative stages of my early adulthood. Armed with said knowledge, I promptly, over the course of two years, went to the University of Houston and flunked out of Geology, although, I did learn the ins and outs of bong-ology. Geology is very boring by the way. Bong-ology on the other hand, makes even bowling fun.... I went back to Austin and began to sit around with two of my best friends, playing spades and dulling my self-pity in a haze of smoke, getting stoned, occasionally looking for a job at the cookie factory or other 'high profile' jobs. Then, a turning point happened in my life. An Army recruiter knocked on my door and I, perhaps sensing tht my current situation was untenable and that I needed to make a break for it, decided to join the Army. I was sent to Korea after I received my initial training. I went there and started studying Korean. I then applied for interrogator school which comes with a year of Korean language, was accepted and sent back to Korea where I got to debrief North Korean defectors which was pretty cool. As I reached my 6th year of being in the military, I realized that it wasn't for me. I didn't feel like bagging groceries at the end of doing 20 years so I decided to get out. There are plenty of Korean linguists out there and they live in a place located in southeast Asia. I...Expand for more