at long last

Christ.

I think Wednesday needs to be a day of rest. I've finished my posts for The Profound (paid, in-depth Substack grammar content) through February. I also realized that I had somehow neglected, in my curriculum, an entire part of speech: prepositions! Kicking myself, I added prepositions to my calendar, so in the future, I can look forward to adding another ten units to the Parts of Speech section of this curriculum. And once prepositions are done, that'll be it for parts of speech, and I'll move on to Punctuation (including those dreaded commas that no one knows how to use).

Now, though, I have a few weeks' breathing room in which to work on other material. Among my book projects, I think the easiest one to knock off is the revised homeschooling book, which will now have the translated Korean manuscript added to it to increase my market. Along with creating a new ebook to put on sale at Amazon, I'll visit the print shop near SNU to have dead-tree copies of the book printed out. I also need to find that publisher whose sign I'd encountered during my walk last year (photo here). I want to talk with that company to see whether it can print a cleaner, higher-quality version of my book and maybe help me to market it in Korea, where it would be less a homeschooling book and more a book to help parents recognize good and poor teaching for their kids' sakes.

So—rest and relaxation for a day, then back to the grind. After I work on my homeschooling book, other book projects include my long-promised movie-review book, a revised version of Water from a Skull, a coffee-table hardback (also in both English and Korean) about my various walking adventures, a second book of humor (I really need to reprint the first book, whose political humor is largely out of date these days), and other books besides.

Later this year, I'll also be making videos for courses on Substack, and maybe shorts to be uploaded onto YouTube. Of course, a lot of this also depends on whether I go back to being a regular working stiff. I'd really rather not, but the funds are, at last, starting to run low, so unfortunately for me, time is getting short.