Not good news. No bad news either, but things have happened.

Well when I last posted, I seemed pretty sure I would have a good idea one way or another whether I would have a job lined up for next year. Turns out I was wrong. I'll speak more on that soon though. This past month has been filled with things happening, most of them pretty okay. This is my first weekday where I've had the day to myself (which means I was doing work that didn't require leaving the house). In fact, I've only really had one true day off since the first week of this month. I've been keeping really busy, but it's not such a bad thing. Being so occupied helps me remember what day it is. Additionally, it's good to try to make myself feel like less of a bum.

Teaching Jobs:
I had a couple interviews with a couple different recruiting companies. One dealt only with EPIK/SMOE (all of Korea or just Seoul). One dealt with those plus GEPIK (the province around Seoul). Both told me that it was going to be difficult for a new teacher such as myself to get a job within the Seoul Metropolitan area, so I decided it would be best to work with the company that offered me a shot at GEPIK. Unfortunately (also kind of fortunately), the application period for GEPIK starts a lot later. In fact, it should be coming up this week or next week sometime. It meant I have more time to wait before determining whether I have a job next year or not, but it was good in that it gave me time to prepare my materials for application. I've spent very little time working on the lesson plan I will need to make. I've been doing a lot of shed work and though I've been thinking about my lesson plan, I haven't really sat down and hammered it out. It will be easy though, I'm going to tweak one of the many plans I made in my teacher training class last summer. On that note...

My project:
I found out today (though I received an email on an address I rarely check anymore on October 15) that my project was not accepted. This means I don't officially have graduate credits yet. The project requires minor tweaking that according to the professor should be easy for me to fix, but were too crucial of details to let slip by. No worries there. I wish I had noticed my notification back in mid-October when it was sent so that I would have had more time to work on the project. It's due a week from today though, so I will have more than enough time. It's just one more thing I have to do in addition to this lesson plan I'm making for applications. It looks like that last little bit of work on the shed will have to wait for next week sometime. Speaking of the shed...

The Shed/Work:
How are you liking these amazing transitions? Most of my work this month has been on the shed. I had the canopy up above all the contents of the shed and I assumed it was keeping it dry, but I failed to remember that we just had a dry summer. When the rain came, the canopy proved still effective, though things needed to get sorted fast. Due to the rain we've been having, I've been spending a lot of time working hard on the shed. I re-carpeted it, sealed it up a bit more, installed shelves, fixed things that were supposed to go back in, put things back in, and organized it. I also set it up with internal lighting which was pretty fun. As of right now, it is nice enough that I would be willing to show it off to people. It is not yet complete however. I still need to do a bit more organizing and take the remaining junk off to Goodwill or the dump. the shed has provided me with good work though. Between working on it and working with Grandpa, I've been pulling at least part time job hours. Now if only this came with a paycheck. I may get paid, though I don't necessarily expect to (I never said I was doing it with the expectation of being paid). Soon this job will dry up though and at that point, I'll be focusing more on my applications, studying Korean, and playing League of Legends. Speaking of League of Legends....(yeah we're keeping this combo alive)...

League of Legends:
Keir has started playing more often which is cool. He seems to be enjoying it a lot and he is definitely getting better. I've been doing ranked matches off and on getting mad and stopping, then starting up again. I would love to get gold ranking before next Tuesday's season end, but that seems unlikely. In other news, Steven, Eric, Albert, and I have formed a ranked 5s team to start getting better. Chris stepped off the team, opting to manage us instead (for tournaments and whatnot). This has left me as unquestionably the worst player by a large margin on the team, but soon I will start practicing a lot and that will help me get better. We needed a fifth player, so Chris found us a guy off Reddit who seems pretty cool. We haven't practiced in a while because he's been sick, but we should be getting back on track soon. Normally, we're keeping to a schedule. Additionally, congratulations to Steven for getting Diamond rank. A big accomplishment and we're all proud of him for it. Looking forward to watching him go pro someday (you never know!) and seeing him play.

Other stuff:
C-c-c-combo breaker T__T. I'm sorry, I couldn't relate League to other stuff. I haven't had much time for other activities recently due to my schedule of work and League. Fantasy football is going well though I am getting destroyed this week. Five of my best players were on bye. Keir is starting his second half of the season dominance this week. I want to find time to study Korean, but I have to wait until I have free time first. I guess it will work out well because I will likely finish the shed around the time I find out if I will get hired for a job in Korea. Other than that, I've been thinking of things I would need to get done before I leave for Korea and keeping track of those for when I get time to do them.

Hope everyone is well. Until next month, peace out.