Yesterday, I skipped the Year in Review feature I usually do on December 31. The reason for this is simple. I did not blog at all in 2022. My last post is literally the Year in Review feature from December 31, 2021. I didn’t even do a “Fifteen Years” post on January 1, like I usually do and like I’m doing now.<\/p>\n
So this year’s January 1 post has a question mark. Am I really celebrating sixteen years of blogging when I only actually blogged for fifteen of those years? Or am I instead marking a birthday. The blog is indeed sixteen years old today.<\/p>\n
2022 was a pretty lousy year for me. I spend most of it unemployed, begging and borrowing, temping and tutoring, gigging and gagging, trying to stay afloat for another week. It was a lousy year, but it had a happy ending, and I’m hoping 2023 will be a better year because of it.<\/p>\n
In November, I got a job as a high school English teacher. I am teaching classes of 9th and 11th grade students. And will I get the chance to teach a certain Renaissance writer who may come up from time to time? Yes, I will. I’ll be teaching Romeo and Juliet<\/em> to the 9th grade classes and Macbeth<\/em> to the 11th grade classes in May and June.<\/p>\n So there should be more to write about this year, now that I’m a Shakespeare Teacher.<\/p>\n