scheduled blog posts: populated

It took way longer than expected, but I finished stocking my blog with scheduled posts through March 22, two days after I'm back from the walk, which ought to give me plenty of time to create even more scheduled posts. In terms of what's done now:

1. I've got all scheduled Substack material ready to go through the end of April, except for my long grammar posts in The Profound, which is part of my paid content. Those posts go through March 21, the day I get back from this upcoming walk. Oh—March 20 is the first official day of spring. Anyway, once I'm back from the walk, I need a few more days to make posts through April. I can do two to three per day.
2. I've now got scheduled posts done for my blog through March 22.

So—starting Tuesday (technically today), I'll spend a few days working on creating more quizzes to supplement my Substack curriculum, then move over to the movie review book. It occurs to me that, when this grammar course is finally done, it's going to be massive. But I don't see a short way around it without cutting more corners than I already have.

Until around April 20, I'll also be working on my movie-review book, and I've thought of some possible lessons/courses for teachers so I can finally break into making videos. One idea, inspired by a bad video I've scheduled (about a "common sense" quiz) is for a course on quiz/test design. Another idea is for a grammar course aimed at Koreans who keep messing up their English grammar. 95% of the mistakes I hear from Korean learners of English are grammar-related—this despite the fact that a lot of Koreans will boast about how thoroughly they study English grammar, with some even brashly claiming to know English grammar better than most Americans. And frankly, there may be some truth to that claim if the incompetence I've seen among certain EFL teachers in Korea is any indication. You can't, as an English teacher, get away with nonsense like saying, "Well, it's just doesn't feel right to write it that way" or "It's smoother if you do it this way." Bunch of horseshit. When I started teaching SAT grammar at the tutoring center where I worked, I quickly realized that my kids, many of whom were gifted, would require real, concrete reasons to justify this grammar over that grammar. For me, there was no room for bullshit. If that job had paid about three times as much, I'd have stayed in Virginia and forgotten Korea.

Well—back to the grind, then, though for the moment, I'm going to take a break and keep watching Kingdom, a Korean series (only two seasons...?) about zombies back in the days when Seoul was known as Hanyang. I'm finding the zombies a little confusing: the first zombies seem to have originated from the victims' consumption of a "resurrection herb" called a saengsacho/생사초/生死草, or literally a "life-death-herb." But after that first "Patient Zero" was infected, the resultant zombies could infect others simply by biting them, after which they multiply like typical zombies. Oh, and these zombies are "runners," not "shamblers." Like a lot of people, I do find it interesting to juxtapose zombies with ancient Korea, but I don't understand how the zombies went from originally being the eaters of a plant to being infected by bites. Is it the blood chemistry? Can I expect this ever to be explained? There's a potentially interesting idea, here, regarding generations of zombies that have different traits and properties from each other, but I have a feeling the show won't be exploring any of that. The living are still fixating on the old "Those corpses aren't really dead!" trope. Anyway, expect a review when I'm done.