Okay, so I know my last post started with me being shocked it had been two months, but...has it really been a whole month already? Ha, at least this time it kinda feels like it ( Read more... )

Oh, my. I knew it had been a while since I posted on here, but has it really been two whole months???

*deep breath*

Okay, my excuses aren’t very good ones, but life has been insane. I barely have time to eat, much less post here. Unfortunately, for some of my days that is not an exaggeration.

As you may have guessed, I did not end up going to Jinju ( Read more... )

So! Last night, around 11:30, I got a phone call from Korea. Really. It was a recruiter working for a private school in Jinju who wanted me to come and teach English there. It sounded like an awesome school and a great opportunity, except..."I know you said you have to wait until May," he said. "But they want you faster than that ( Read more... )

Well...NaNo's finally over. Not that I did much with it at all the last two weeks or so. Life decided it would rather implode than leave me in peace to write. Don't you hate it when that happens ( Read more... )

I just haven’t been talking to people much, given that I’ve just been super crazy busy, with school and work and NaNo and everything else that’s going on in my life. Slash coming crashing down around my ears.

Let’s start with the good news first - I heard back from the school in Mexico!
( update on this below! )

Good news! I can earn my TESOL certificate without going to grad school!

It’s a little bit complicated when you live on a state border. Kansas City, if someone out there happens to not know, sits smack dab on the Kansas-Missouri border. The western half of the city, where I live, is in Kansas; the eastern half, where I go to school, is in Missouri ( Read more... )

"That work is an age-old fact does not in the least prevent it from remaining a perfectly historical fact...we know very well that work is 'natural' just as long as it is 'profitable', and that in modifying the inevitability of the profit, we shall perhaps one day modify the inevitability of labour."
-Barthes, The Great Family of Man (Mythologies)

( My response to Barthes )

Okay! I have slept, so it is time for a real post; after all, all two of my readers might be wondering what I’m up to, haha.

It has been a very teacher-y day. I didn’t actually teach today, but that’s never stopped me before. I still had my French class today, which was confusing - something about how humanists who like photography think History is ( Read more... )