Postscript: School's Out

On the still-fairly-new site, Video Game Academy, I'm planning a series of posts on games in literature, have been for some time, and will get around to them soon. There's also a debrief on the Zelda class and the Final Fantasy VI discussions to add to the mix. 

As a coda to this remarkably old blog, though, I thought I'd sum up in a general way some of what's been going on since the spring. 

I had a trove of Spanish books given to me by the organizer of the Friday conversation club which no longer meets at a restaurant whose owners retired. 

I taught that Zelda class on Outschool, the uber of ed, filling section after section and adding more and more to meet the demand, until I've found myself wondering if talking about video games this way could make a living.

Similarly, I had my classes at the community college fill enough to run them for the first time, getting to teach Spanish online, although not the book discussion on Don Quijote. 

The Twitch channel for Signum University has been the home for Signum Academy for many moons now, and looks like it will continue to be for the foreseeable future. 

When schools reopen this fall, it looks like it will be online, mainly, and so will subbing be. In case jobs become more scarce, however, and in the hopes of having a real job again at a school, whatever that means now, I'm working towards a teaching certificate, more than a decade into teaching. So far, it's all that I imagined it would be. At some point I'll have more to say on that.

Like everyone else, I've been listening to more Black voices, more podcasts and books on tape, participating in more book clubs. My favorites, the hosts of Still Processing, have made me think a lot about color, culture, Shakespeare in the park, Lemonade and Marmalade. 

If I can, I'll try to get going again on my podcasts, incorporating some of what I'm learning into my process. But mostly I have been keeping busy being a dad.