Pursuing Calefaction

So, time to come back to things uttered in the fever pitch of self-improvement. As Chesterton says, it is the patient who is to be cured of an illness, but a man requires impatience to cure himself of his faults. (Sins, he says, but I have also no patience for that metaphysical shorthand.) To reiterate, [...]

It is a couple days before 2013 begins, and I don’t go in to school until the 2nd, but my vacation is over. It has been restful, explicitly doing nothing, though being sick has made that somewhat mandatory. And now I must do all the preparation work that I have put off while doing nothing. [...]

So, I passed the PRAXIS. With flying colors! As if I ought to have had any doubt at all. So that means I am on the path to becoming a bonified, full time teacher-man, with all the professional development that entails. I survived until the winter break, though my immune system just about gave up [...]

I am trying to write more, to flesh out the universe in which my fictive thoughts dwell so often. So here’s a card to help push me over the boundary from dilettante to workman. (Shamelessly stolen from this site.)

Vengeance
Oncoming Storm
Maelstrom
Go
High

Blood
Meaning of Life
Poison
The Good Life
Underwater

Agony
Sunset
Wild Card
Touch
Earth

Render Unto Caesar
Petal
Win
Unique
Daily Bread

Flat Earth
Sea
Clarity
Rain
at the airport

First goal: One row by [...]