correcting an oversight

Over on Substack, I'm nearing the end of my syllabus's run through parts of speech, but I somehow failed to include, over the past several months, an explicit lesson on the three kinds of objects: direct, indirect, and prepositional. So I spent some time today making up a lesson, and it'll appear tomorrow alongside the regularly scheduled lesson for tomorrow, which is: Intro to Prepositions + Prepositions of Time/Sequence. I've named this new, special lesson, creatively enough, Nouns/Pronouns: Special Lesson—a focused lesson on three kinds of objects. Prepositions will take us to about the second week of April.

My back is also a bit achy today (am I doing my core work wrong?), so I won't be doing the Yangpyeong-to-Yeoju walk tonight. I've rescheduled that walk for Tuesday night, when I'll be nice and fasted after not eating all day Monday and Tuesday. In all likelihood, when I hit Yeoju's bus terminal Wednesday morning, I'll slip into a nearby convenience store and buy myself a snack or three to break the fast. I'll be back to fasting on Thursday and Friday, then eating a small, modest meal on Saturday, then training down to Daejeon on Sunday (no eating on that day); while on the trail, I'll revert to my usual on-the-trail eating schedule, i.e., eating in the afternoon when I'm done walking both because I'm used to doing things that way and because I avoid the potential for postprandial angina while walking. 

In less than two months, I've got a doctor's appointment to consider, so I need to make sure my A1c score, a three-month average—is down to a reasonable level.

Otherwise, I'm back to working on the movie-review book; it's been a weird experience to go back and read all my old prose, a lot of which makes me cringe. I've been proofreading more than editing, though, correcting obvious mistakes and reformatting text where it needs reformatting. I do occasionally add, subtract, or alter content, but I try to keep the prose as faithful as possible to its original form. This first book is going to be clunky as a result; anyone who reads it through chronologically will see how rough the prose was back in 2009 or so, and how I was still flailing around to find my voice as well as a proper movie-review format. (Some might argue that I'm still flailing, which may be true.) I was less rigorous about noting things that I note automatically now, like the year of a movie's release and the name of the film's director. These days, release date, director's name, and list of stars are almost always all noted in the first paragraph of every review I write. For some odd reason, though, I still only rarely mention screenwriters, which is probably an oversight on my part.

Righto—back to the grind.

ADDENDUM: I got my train ticket yesterday.