Caveat: Waiting for the Night

What I'm listening to right now.

Depeche Mode – Waiting for the Night.  You know how a particular piece of music gets associated with a place?  This track is forever linked in my mind with the Golden State Freeway (I-5) between Burbank and Glendale – the start of my commute home from work for several years.

Caveat: Pushing; Heartless; Nerd-Angst.

I'm struggling with the fact that I'm actually enjoying work more, now that I'm teaching 35 class-hours a week.  It's because I derive positive energy out of being in the classroom with the kids, whereas I generally find sitting in the staff room dinking around with prep work (or trying to write textbooks) depressing and dull.  But there's a burnout aspect out of pushing this hard, too – it's fulfilling but not sustainable, maybe.  I don't know.

I'm doing OK – I'm doing almost nothing aside from working, lately.   I've set aside my two main hobbies:  fiction and/or poetry writing, and trying to study Korean.   I haven't been jogging every evening like I was before this hard push at work, too.  Good habits die so easily, don't they?  I had barely got the thing off the ground, and all it took was a few nights of "oh-I'm-too-tired."   Well.

What I'm listening to right now.

The Fray – Cover of Kanye West's "Heartless."  I like the video a lot too – talk about awesome animation capturing teen nerd-angst.

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