Changes

I haven't posted on this blog since we left Korea.  Moving halfway around the world can be distracting. But no, that's not it.  I'm just not blog material.  Social media has never resonated with me, so I'll just have to try harder.
Big changes.  Son on the way.  Career change.  Halfway through life (according to Statistics Canada at least).  And things make less and less sense (which is okay).  Here is an ultrasound picture of the wee baby Logan. 

Why Logan?  It resonates more than the other names.  That's it.  It also belongs to an X-Men character and a really tall mountain which is cool.  I seriously entertained the name "Magnum" for a while, but then people reminded me that this is not what a rational person would choose.  He looks sort of alien in this pic, but it should be interesting to see his reaction when he sees this years from now.
I'm not a teacher anymore, which feels like the right thing.  The thing with teaching that started to wear on me: it's the sales pitch.  When you are teaching people that are motivated to learn and willing to meet you halfway, it's the greatest job in the world.  There's a kind of magic in that connection.  It's almost addictive in its own way.  But when you have to teach people that don't meet you halfway, it's like sales.  You're constantly fighting for the attention of your students and some people have this "take it or leave it" attitude that sort of wears you out after a while. 

Random Frank Zappa quote: "You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."