Xianxia in real life?

I have one more full day of teaching that I have to do. After that, I hope to take a break from lesson planning and spend that time working on my teaching portfolio. This past week was exhausting. It could have been because I was distracted, but I almost wanted to give up on teaching entirely a couple of times. I have really enjoyed getting to know the students, but the language arts are a frustrating subject to teach, I’ve decided. Even so, I have been pleasantly surprised a few times at how enthusiastically the students attack writing assignments that I give them. In particular, almost all of them seemed to enjoy writing a proposal for a change at the school.

Two years ago, I came home from Japan, and now I’m almost 34 years old. The past two years haven’t been exactly what I had hoped or imagined, but it has certainly been interesting. Last year in particular might have been the most I started off 2020 with the intention of doing challenges to keep myself progressing. That year I read a peculiar book series in a relatively new genre (to western culture) of progression fantasy. I rediscovered that series when I encountered a few Worm crossovers with that series (Cradle), and from there discovered another web novel (Beware of Chicken) which I just finished this morning. After that, I bought a video game called Amazing Cultivation Simulator, which is like Rimworld in the world of Xianxia (the Chinese word for the cultivation/progression fantasy genre). Fortunately, I got too frustrated with the lack of documentation to really get absorbed with playing it. It and the web novel also inspired me to consider my own real life in terms of progression.

One thing I really want to do is keep a record of what I learn and what I try to learn every day. Ideally, I would also like to keep track of the hours I spend on my pursuits, but that would be tedious. I do have some hope of being able to accomplish it, though, now that I have come close to establishing a nightly routine. But first, I think I will start a spreadsheet I update nightly with my weekly activities and my learning foci in each by day. Then, perhaps at the end of the week, I can write a journal entry expanding on them as well as my weekly thoughts. Yes, that seems much more achievable than a daily entry. For instance, this week I memorized Psalm 31:16-24. I would probably write down leisure reading as well, which in this case would be Beware of Chicken, and I might as well list my physical activities also (mostly push-ups). I hope this format will also provoke me to work on new things more deliberately, particularly on the piano/guitar.