These days are full of reading, processing that material and creating projects that are the result of that material and other matters that are alternatively associated with my courses this term. Working towards a teaching degree is a major undertaking ~ Requires my focus and attention, away from other things.

I am very much enjoying being fully engaged, and the fact that I’ll be able to put it all into use for others at the end of this side-track in a way, is a pleasure.

Listening to Sal Khan in the background (founder of the Khan Academy) as I type, for the pedagogical flex. Favorite project of the week: Wrote about watching Mr Rogers as a kid and his value… in Chinese. Otherwise, been steeping in a 12th century Japanese tale that is rich as all bones and looking forward to enjoying the nap I’ll take before my alarm rings in the morning…

Great news! This year is the first that I live with an automatic coffee maker! Loving it! Hahaha!

What can I say? With the book finally released after years of working towards it, I’m really enjoying mailing them out to friends and family, but am surely going to get a break once there’s a bit of saturation. Like usual, I have zero marketing in play and figure that I’ll look at that aspect of things when I’m not racing to process my childhood memories into foreign languages while studying to teach English. Heh.

Last week was totally different~ In a 10th century Persian work from a fella who rode in a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to Bukhara and then north towards the Volga river and was the only voice that survived speaking to the people of the Caucus area between the eras of Herodotus and Marco Polo.

At the same time, I was focused on Tang Dynasty poetry~ So, sticking to it. Haven’t been out and about a bunch. Feeling alright about that.

So, I hope you’ve gotten the book (see the link on this page) and are excited as I am that I’ll have the spring time to start a new one (if I don’t start a Masters degree early!) that I’ll finish as soon as possible~

Take care!