Impatient Idealist

I am posting a dance class in Mali because it's the outcome of this morning's tangential thoughts. I've been watching the Kdrama "Resident Playbook," a hospital-set show that is sort of a follow-up to "Hospital Playlist." Fans kept demanding a 3rd season of HP and got RP instead, I guess. One of the 1st year OB/GYN residents was in a short-lived one hit wonder (fictional) KPop group before he went to med school. In a scene in episode 9, he was dancing to the song at the end of a karaoke evening with colleagues when another resident got up and danced along, to the shock of everyone else. Yesterday that scene took over one of my algorithm silos in youtube. The song is performed on the soundtrack by the (actual) group TxT and two of its members appear in the video of the fictional group. So now on YT there is the scene from the show, a video of the recording studio, a dance video of the fake group, in costume, a video of the dance in regular clothes, and a video of the two characters from the show learning the dance. I have watched them all. The dance studio in which the instruction is happening is not unlike the studio used for my tap class - a wall full of mirrors with numbers along the bottom - the middle number is 0 with other numbers by 1s or 2s in each direction. like 6 4 2 0 2 4 6. This is to make the spacing of dancers in a dance more precise.
Here they are in a studio in Seoul, presumably
https://youtube.com/shorts/H0LMWq1hKiQ?feature=shared

I started wondering if this is something that happens everywhere. I decided to pick Mali to represent Africa and got the great video above. But I still can't see the front of the room - are there mirrors or numbers? Probably not, but I can't tell.

Icon above is from my front yard, a bee in a bloom.

People sometimes make little sounds in their sleep that are not snoring but slightly louder than just inhaling/exhaling. I was barely awake this morning when I heard a sound that was just like such a sound Arthur used to make when asleep. That woke me up completely - what could make that sound? Not a bird outside, not the pillow next to me. WTH? I don't believe in ghosts. It's not windy outside, so it wasn't that.
It was only that once, so I can't record it or otherwise figure it out. I am pretty sure it wasn't one of those weird dreams that one has while basically awake.

There was no Korean class yesterday because the teacher is in New Orleans, adding a few days of tourism onto a biotech conference she was attending. I wonder whether there were a lot of conversations about people potentially losing their jobs. My janggu teacher is a chemist when she's not doing pungmul 1 and home life. I presume everybody in science is worried about jobs, but is it worse for people who moved here for work? If you have a green card or some sort of permanent residence arrangement does that matter? I'm not close enough to either of them to ask such a question.
I am not diligent enough in Korean homework, but I had a tiny brain flash this morning - a phrase one hears in song lyrics that is usually translated in subtitles as "I miss you" literally (translated by me) means "I want to see you." Or maybe look at you? A couple of days ago a drama subtitle said "See you tomorrow." I didn't pay much attention but then realized that I might not have needed a subtitle for 내일 봐요 in the context of someone getting into a cab. Tiny tiny steps.

At some rummage sale (?) decades ago I bought a massive Greek Lexicon. Beyond door-stop size. How can I give it away now? I recently took a lot of books to the friends of the library donation cart, but I didn't take that. I also don't know what to do about books with covers torn off. In the 1970s there was a store (mostly a tobacconist, IIRC) in Central Square Cambridge that sold lots of books with covers torn off. I didn't realize at the time that it meant that the authors would get no royalties. We both shopped there. If they were all put together there might be a shelf full of mostly science fiction and a bit of other fiction. Do I try to give them away? Recycle them? I have a computer tech textbook 2 that was published in 2001. Again, just into the recycle bin?

1 I am not taking lessons anymore, but there is a small group every couple of weeks that I started attending. I think she is hoping for a regular performance group, and I am probably not suited for it. When I signed up for this I was hoping for some sort of jam equivalent, but it's not really that.

2 I am using Windows 10 on the laptop. They will stop supporting it in October, and maybe force Windows 11 on me (?). Someone online suggests switching to Linux before that. Me? Are there classes for old ladies who can't code?