What’s the opposite of a groove? A peak? A sharp, prickly peak? Yeah, that’s what I got back into. First day of school in Korea is such an enormous nightmare. To wit: I’m now teaching 3rd Grade, which is fine in as far as anything that doesn’t kill me dead is fine, but they threw out the old books before the new ones came in. I literally have no book from which to teach. I’ve also been told that the new curriculum has no English language teacher’s edition.

Do with that what you will.

Mostly I’m glad to be back. I like having routine and purpose. But juggling my free time is always tricky. I have that very unannounced project lurking down in my task bar, I’m still staring down a stack of vacation photos a mile high and I’m pecking my way through learning to plot waveforms in a tracker so that when I get down and out about being a miserable guitar player I can make cute little Gameboy songs to cheer myself up. I like having lots of free time for goofy projects. I am not always the wisest executor of it, but when I get under the gun (Haha, that means “Have a job”) I get kind of frantic and hop from project to project without any real regard for making progress on any of them. I need a personal assistant or something.