Taken in December 2005 in my apartment in Jinju, South Korea, on one of those nights spent too far inside my own head and too far back in the States. I loved that heater. It cast the weirdest glow on the room whenever I woke up at 3:30 a.m., which was often.

Taken on March 29, 2010, inside my apartment in Busan, South Korea, a few hours after having a needle jammed not-very-delicately through a vein in my right hand for an MRI on my gallbladder. Add about 20 pounds, five years, knock a little hair off the top, it's about the same, yeah? Upgrade? Downgrade?