Things are starting to pick up some speed around here. Finally received my TESOL grade (passed) and my official certificate, completed my FBI background check, had my petition to get my AA in Korean studies approved, and even finished that data analytics course and received my professional certification. Now, I just have to wait for my diploma and background check to be apostilled and I'm good to go. After that, I can start looking for a teaching job and, once I find one, get my VISA changed. So that's all good news!
I just need to get my CV up to speed.
This all goes well and I might even be able to afford a new pair of trail shoes in a couple of months. The treads on mine have been worn bald. And, of course, I'd like to hit up the tailor.
The data analytics course was interesting. Learned a lot about spreadsheets, got familiar with SQL and R, and learned some Tableau, among other things. In essence, it's all like a boring video game. And it was also a bit of a peak behind the curtain about why so many things in this world are fucked up. Accountancy is not a route to truth. And that's how decisions are being made so . . . Enjoy Marvel Man 154, I guess.
Couple of broad criticisms that I don't want to go too deep into here, but this accountancy method of knowing reality and guiding action, being based on prediction, seems designed and determined to just replicate the past, creating shoddier and shoddier versions of photocopied shit until finally spitting out nothing but a low beige toxic mush. It also crowds out the lunatic insight. It's all too sane. It's a problem.
Having said that, I have a soft spot for totally logical systems built on completely ridiculous premises. That's probably part of the reason I've never been able to completely exorcise my Roman Catholicism. In spite of having no opinions about the existence of God, let alone what that monster would even want or think about anything, and my basic relationship to The Church and its agents being, basically "And how about you gang of liars, hypocrites, and whack-jobs all go fuck yourselves?" I still appreciate the psychic architecture. I feel that way about most ~isms. Feel that way about statistics and spreadsheets too.
And I can think of a few projects I'd like to do on my own with the tools I now have. So I'll probably get started on some of those. See how it goes.
Cherry blossoms have started blooming though. So that's my priority right now.
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