What is an inertial reboot? Well, I "rebooted" my contract, yesterday. We had to go and officialize an alteration to my work visa because of the recent (well, two months past) merger between Karma and Woongjin. And because I was being wishy-washy about my future, and because I was "going with the flow" we "rebooted" my contract: Korean teaching contracts are almost universally 1 year long, and mine with Karma was May-to-May, but now it's September-to-September – that means I'm committed until September.
It's really just inertia. I wasn't really thinking of going off and doing something else, come end-of-contract, next May. It's just that it was a rather un-pondered decision. I just did it. This is good in the sense that I'm comfortable enough with how things are to do it. It's bad because I have, in fact, been struggling with feeling like I should be developing some kind of alternate plan for my life. This latter is a consequence of the recent visit back to the US, when more than one person close to me was at least somewhat critical, in one way or another, of my expat lifestyle. That's hard.
