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How to Sneak Home for Christmas | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. How to Sneak Home for Christmas. January 31, 2015. Cut a hole in a box. Make sure you can actually do it. Check the dates, BUY the ticket and make sure you can get to/from your destination. Without this, all the other steps are just duuuuust in the wind. Step 2: Find an accomplice. Sneak up to Seoul for your birthday (True) and fly out (Secret). Tweet nothing. Facebook nothing. Have Philippines teachers tag you in their posts “LOL going on vacay! 8221; in that happy voice you k...
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The Not-So-Blind Date | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. October 4, 2014. Fade in from black, desk at an office, roughly 7:23pm, Thursday 10/2/14. BAILEY, a late 20-something woman in workout clothes, is about to go play volleyball with fellow teachers in 30 minutes. She sits at her desk reading about the various antics of her guilty pleasure, K-Pop’s BigBang. YOUNG MALE KOREAN CO-WORKER (YMKCW) enters, spots BAILEY and proceeds to her desk. YMKCW: Do you want to go sogating (blind date) with my friend? He’s from Seoul. XX: So you wo...
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Fish Fillet O’ LIES: How Korean McDonald’s Delivery Broke My Heart More Than Boys | Bailey Say What
https://baileysaywhat.com/2015/03/03/fish-fillet-o-lies-how-korean-mcdonalds-delivery-broke-my-heart-more-than-boys
Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. Fish Fillet O’ LIES: How Korean McDonald’s Delivery Broke My Heart More Than Boys. March 3, 2015. So in Korea, you can order McDonalds AND THEY DELIVER IT TO YOU. These crusaders of goodness mow every pedestrian in their path down to get to you (I know because I appreciate their work ethic from the sidewalk they pushed my face to in their quest for short delivery times). WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? Oh Oh Wait. What the hell is my address? Bailey YMKCW: What’s our address? PPS: It sa...
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Pre-Grieving | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. April 22, 2015. I should be home by now. In fact, I’m sure my coworkers are already snug in their Woobang nests. Instead I got off downtown for 2 fake errands…and I can’t really tell you why I did it. I guess I’m starting to get nostalgic. Which…is dumb, because I’m still here, right? No, FOUR cellphone stores from my vantage point. Is it creepy to people watch this much? I’m eavesdropping on all these conversations right now. I understand zero of them. I’m ...I wish I could un...
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The Not-So-Blind Date: Part Deux | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. The Not-So-Blind Date: Part Deux. October 5, 2014. Scene 2, Friday night, 10/3/14: The curtain rises to show our plucky heroine, BAILEY, at an undisclosed KBBQ joint with THINGS 1 and 2, KOALA, CAPTAIN and MS. MARVEL, TIMBITS, SALSA and BOOTS, DEN MOTHER AND SASSAFRAS. Libations and pork have been flowing, and all is well in the world. Text Message YMKCW BAILEY (see Part 1. Hey we are downtown* *. YMKCW BAILEY: where r u* *. BAILEY YMKCW: we are at not downtown* *. This is NOT ...
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Bailey Say What | Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. | Page 2
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. August 4, 2015. I’m sitting in a Starbucks on Irving Park. In Chicago. I live here now. I do I am. Except I am. At least a little. Right now, I’m walking around my neighborhood, Albany Park (unofficial Koreatown, which is kind of hilarious in the context of my life); learning a new bus system, carrying pepper spray (yes, Dad, its in my bag now). And I’m not scared of. 8211;that I will have romanticized comedy and my role in that world. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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About Me | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. My name is Alyssa but I almost always go by Bailey, except when I’m home and there’s 5 other people who also use that name. I hail from the glorious and green state of Washington, but have transplanted to Tulsa, Oklahoma for college, migrated on to Little Rock, Arkansas to begin my grown-up life, then emigrated to Daegu, South Korea for two years to teach English and mayhem. Let’s do it. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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baileysaywhat | Bailey Say What
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Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. August 2, 2016. One Whole. Year. In Chicago. Got rehired at a great job; free transit, great co-workers and tolerable dad jokes. Started classes at Xavier’s School For Clowns Who Think They Funny. Found legit big apartment with 2 roommates who were equally legit and has affordable rent in a safe and cute neighborhood. Began attending a Krav Maga gym full of loony characters and lovable idiots. I even voluntarily went camping with them in June. Took a Korean class and surprising...
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Thingamabobs (you know, I got 20). | Bailey Say What
https://baileysaywhat.com/2015/04/01/thingamabobs-you-know-i-got-20
Diet Coke. Comedy. Kimchi. Thingamabobs (you know, I got 20). April 1, 2015. In the words of my Korean non-husband (WHO IS HAVING A COMEBACK ANNOUNCED TODAY), “l ong time no see long time no see. Here’s what you missed in the last 4 months on “Glee:”. Pizza Hut is the husband I tried to cheat on with McDonald’s, the evil, non-delivering, dicks. And yet Pizza Hut lovingly takes me back like Hosea’s wife and delivers me gorgeous, glorious pizza with no trauma or difficulty or Korean. Website here. Doing on...
