Kyle M. Perkins

I'm on my bike, in Japan!

So, you may be wondering "Where has Kyle been?" I have a very good answer: busy. Okay, that's not a very good answer. How about this one: In the past month, I have done the following:

• Packed up the Waynesville house for selling and moving
• Had the cats examined and ready to move
• Moved to Japan!
• Attended training for my "new" job - teaching english
• Maintaining the Japanese apartment
• Planned out the new semester for a WEB 115 online course that I am teaching with AB Tech, all the way across the world
• Recorded videos for WEB 115, edited, and published them (per section - I'm up to Chapter 3 out of 9)
• Organized Moodle for WEB 115, which was a mess, since I merged my seated class with my "attempt" at my previous online WEB 115 class, so I had to sort that out)
• Traveled to Tokyo multiple times to take care of some visa documentation
• Attended more training for my English teaching job
• Traveled to some of the schools that I will be teaching at
• Prepped for a presentation at the Board of Education, who ultimately decides my fate with my new job
• Edited the physical copy of Omega Noir (I'm editing the digital manuscript now)
• Updating all profile information to either Raleigh or Japan
• Communicating with in-laws about stuff we left in Waynesville, in Raleigh, and/or selling items
• ....and I'm sure I left something off of this list

So I've been busy. Since I'm now (and hopefully) a full-time Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) with this company (instead of a substitute, which I was originally hired as), I will be working 40 hours a week between 2 elementary schools and 2 junior high schools; I'm also teaching/managing an online session of WEB 115 with AB Tech; and I'm editing/rewriting Omega Noir, so it can hopefully be released by the end of the year.

Why? I want "Omega Noir 2" to start in November, so I can participate in NaNoWriMo again.

Japanoblog

Oh, did I mention that I'm also working on Keat and my side project, Japanoblog? Yeah, we're also doing that when we have some free time.
I know I've been slack on my personal site's postings - I've dedicated more time to Japanoblog while I've been at the apartment (shooting video, editing video, creating the blog post, managing social media presence, etc) along with making sure that my WEB 115 course is up-to-date (wash, rinse, repeat - minus the social media), and prepping for my new ALT job.

Overall, I have a lot on my plate - and that's how I like it. While working full time, having a part time online teaching job, writing/editing books, and managing/shooting/editing video and posts for a side job, I've got a lot to do. Am I making excuses? No, I just don't have a lot of free time. Does that mean I will stop writing? Of course not, but I won't have as much dedicated time to get my books done as fast as I originally hoped (which also means my parody book, The Story: Epic Conquest of Tag may have to wait until probably 2019 or so