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108 8:45 pm Darling I have a new job! I don't know whether it will involve a change of title - presumably I'll remain Korean Liaison Officer (i.e. Liaison Officer between the M.G. and the Korean Community) since that work apart from the general work of Operations Office involves only a hour or so a day plus a few evenings a month - but I am now to be in charge of the Korean school (10 teachers, about 44 students) as assistant to the Education Officer, Tel (for Telford) Mook. Will probably divide my time between the two offices, spending mornings at Operations and afternoons at Education. Will write more about it later. Tonight I'm dead tired (English class, part of the movie now being shown three times weekly to several thousand civilians). When I'm absorbed in the work I'm doing I find that my whole energy goes into it and it's that much harder to write letters (though it certainly makes the time pass!) It's not that I don't want to - actually I have more to write about - but just that I haven't the time. I guess it's small use to promise long letters for any given time (I do promise some sort of letter daily, and wouldn't feel complete somehow if I skipped one); as you have probably noted and grown somewhat accustomed to by now, [pg 2] I go in cycles. The times when I have least to do (as in Hawaii, or occasionally here) are those when I write best. At any rate I'm storing up all sorts of things to tell you about later on. Wednesday 7:40 am (#117) I can just imagine what you said when you dropped [Dai?iten?] on your toe - as they put it in the funny papers (the frustrated Jap), [Japanese characters]? Yes, honey, I'll bring the big dictionaries home for Wendy to sit on. Thank you so much for getting the books transferred and off. I do like the material you bought for Wendy's summer dress - pale pink with little rosebuds. And I'm glad you got the shoes at Lanz, and the sunsuit. It's not only good for your morale to buy things like that; it makes me feel good to hear about it. In my next letter, or at my first opportunity, I'll enclose a money order for $7 for you to use on yourself. It's not much but you can get a bottle of stink or a dress, may be. Remember the money I lost at poker in Boulder, just at a time when we needed it (psychologically) to expand our little reserve? Well, I won it back shooting craps New Year's Eve - that's how we celebrated the occasion here, with practically all the officers in the game. Had to use it at the time for pocket money but have since been paid and as it's been earmarked for you all along it'll be in the mail as soon as I can catch the P.O. open. Tonight I think I have nothing to do except write letters and get to bed early! I love you, darling W.
