my january treat to myself

really dope dj headphones.

the real big ones.  i will not be able to hear a single person on the bus or subway or in the street.  no hearing koreans prattle on into their cell phones.  just me and my hip-hop and trance.  i reckon i will look quite interesting in business clothes with big ass headphones on.  haha with my uggs on under my dress pants.  so classy.

getting said headphones was a bit of a challenge.  i have checked out the apple store by my work, but they didn't have the best selection of big dope headphones (as i have officially dubbed them).  i remembered the electronics market at yongsan, and after work today, i gathered up my courage and headed that way.  

no let me tell you about yongsan.  it is like walking through a state fair with carnies yelling at you every five seconds to come play their game.  except at yongsan, they're yelling at you to come buy their cameras and ipods and stereos, oh my.  they each know about ten words of english, so when they see a western face, they immediately bring out the, 'hello, nice products here, hello, hello...'  i walk by.  i keep my ipod on, avoid eye contact, and make my way past them, only using my peripheral vision to see if i should stop at a booth to check out their goods.  i had seen some big sony headphones on the internet and wanted to check them out in person.  i found them, but couldn't actually try them on.  sorry, but im not dropping a couple hundred thousand won on something i can't take out of the fucking box.

so i mosey-ed on.  i forced myself to not feel pressured to buy anything.  i decided to just look.  and then i found a booth dedicated to only headphones.  headphones you could actually try on!

i saw the sonys and gave them a spin.  not bad.  i gave them the old fergie/jay-z/tiesto test.  then i saw them, the big denon pro dj headphones.  sick.  absolutely sick.

they spoke to me.  

i took a spin around that floor of yongsan, weighing my options, pondering ways of justifying spending the money.  i justified that i was putting in plenty of overtime and plenty of interview hours.  i bought them.

bad bad kendra.

but hey, i needed a treat.  i have one student whom i want to throw out of the window on a daily basis.  this student is by far the weirdest human being (can i even call 'it' that?) i have ever met.

four more days of this session.