Changing of the Gaurd

It's been more than three months since arriving in Korea. When I think about it I think either, "holy crap, it's been three months already? or "my God, it's only been three months?"

It seems like things change here so quickly. People are always trickling in and out, but in two weeks, three very significant people in my social group are leaving: my colleagues Greg Zibby and Tim Zasly. When these three leave there will be a totally different group dynamic.

Greg is the glue. I don't want to say he organizes events, because, usually there isn't much organizing to it. Greg just suggests something and people start talking. Next thing you know there are twenty people having a cookout on the pier. Everyone loves Greg and the more he drinks the more jolly and extroverted he gets, so the partying tends to last well into the night, even if it starts in the afternoon.

My initial thoughts on Zibby were that she was stuck up and arrogant. But I gave her a chance and I'm glad I did because I've grown to like her a lot. She has a hell of a sense of humor. Sometimes when bantering around the office, I will have think I took a joke too far (maybe I make a joke about getting a mouthful of cum) and Zibby will take the heat off me by taking it even farther (maybe now there is gargling involved). She also sits next to me at work. Who is going to sit there in two weeks?

In earlier posts, I have wrote about wanting to punch Tim Zasly in the face. I don't know how exactly it happened, but we're cool now. Maybe even friends. Dare I say it? Yeah, I think I'm going to miss Tim.

I have often listened with fascination to my peers tell stories of people who have come and gone. I will here five or six people give me their unique perspectives of someone I have never met. Now I imagine myself in three months telling new people about Greg and Zibby and Tim and I have a feeling I'll be using the phrase "those were good times" a lot.