Tomorrow a new semester begins. I will be ramping up towards becoming a better teacher and diving deep into a semester filled with interesting subjects and more interesting students. I’m teaching classes that are comparatively 300 and 400 level courses at Arizona State and other schools that offer degrees in gaming, and I feel pretty confident that I’m doing it well. Sadly I don’t have the large student base of the Universities, but the practice I’m gaining points to a longer term future doing these things as my primary move.
One day.
Or maybe one day I just teach them more on the side as I focus on novels. I don’t know. I feel like I have fifteen or so really good working years left in me before I get to the point of not wanting to do it as much. This is far past the retirement date, but who knows what the future holds and where it is being held? I know that part of what I am thinking and feeling is about the idea of staying on the edge of current events in these areas and knowing things as someone in the thick of it as opposed to someone long past his prime. I still feel prime. I still feel like I have a lot to offer as a teacher and a storyteller.
Gonna suck when I don’t feel that way anymore.
Some Thoughts:
- This portal drama has revealed one sad and simple truth: My kids don’t want to have me as part of their decision making process. I don’t know if that falls to their birth mom or what, but I am not part of the conversations. I am not part of the life they are trying to build. I’m a part of their past and someone who they love but see as not central in any way to their future or deciding that future. I’m hardly even the help… unless they really need something. Sad revelation, that.
- Globes… Glazer was solid but the whole thing feels suspect between some of the categories and what is commonly nominated. We’re talking about a very select group of voters here…