Harnessing My Chi

I had a HUGE (HUUUGE) fight with Agnes last week, which ended with me hanging up on her. I was ready to transfer schools or go home, I was done, over it.
My friends in Korea have been quietly trying to find me a different job so I can get out of the psychotic grasp of Agnes. I literally had the transfer papers in hand after our blow-out fight. I almost hit the woman, I have no idea how I kept it together enough to not physically touch her. I seriously wonder about her mental balance.
The woman tried to cheat me out of at least 4 days of payment I should have received (but she did not prevail). Luckily I called the corporate headquarters of Talking Club in Seoul and ever-so-politely asked about the policies of sick days, Christmas and mandatory week-long holidays off. Four days of missing payment is quite significant to someone who desperately needs that money. She seriously said I wasn't going to get paid for a sick day even when she was the one who had to take me to the hospital! And Christmas?! Christmas is a national-freaking-holiday in Korea and I wasn't going to get paid "because I didn't work that day." Are you kidding me?! Yeah, it's Christmas and she's a "Christian"! WTF?!
Anyway, I won't get into any more details about the dirt, but thanks to friends and family talking me off the ledge I've decided to stick it out with the woman and just finish my contract and then move on with my life.
I've had the goal of working abroad for far too long to let one person ruin my experience. I'm really enjoying living in Asia, it's just that pesky work environment that's getting in the way...
I came here for three very specific reasons: I wanted the cultural experience of living in an Asian country, I wanted to make some desperately needed money and I wanted to travel. That is it.
I adamently refuse, R-E-F-U-S-E to allow one person to wreck my experience of Korea, although she's trying her absolute hardest.
I will not let some inept, disorganized, cheating, two-faced psycho get the best of me. I know many people who would kill to live and work abroad and I'm incredibly lucky to be living the life I've chosen to lead and I will not be disrespecting those living vicariously through me by dreading every moment I'm here.
This is going to be a lesson in patience for me, which is not something I have a lot of. I'm also not very good at keeping my mouth shut when I think something is wrong. Again, something I will be working on this year. I will be learning a lot in the next 9 1/2 months. Let's just hope I'm better for it.
I'm working on breathing, meditating, talking to my friends here, saying "October, October, October" out loud, anything that will help me deal with her and just get me through the day with her.
That being said, I will still complain about the psycho bitch from Hell ad nauseum. I can honestly say I hate the woman. I've never said that about anyone in my life. I've strongly disliked people in my day, but "hate"? I've never, ever said that until now. It will be an interesting 9 1/2 months... (Yes, I have it down to the half-months.)