Excellent News!

Well, this was a bit unexpected, but I've been offered a teaching position in Ireland! Apparently they're even more desperate for skilled maths teachers than California is. Of course I accepted immediately. I'll be teaching geometry and pre-calculus at a high school in a fairly small town called Seafóid Cruthanta on the west coast, near Doolin. I was there for a couple of days two summers ago, and it has a brilliant folk music scene, and a fascinating old ruined abbey nearby, and of course the ubiquitous ruined-castle-with-cannon-damage-from-Cromwell. I know it's far away from friends and family but it's such a wonderful place, and I hope many of you will be able to visit occasionally. Their school year starts early, so Hazel and I will be moving as soon as I get my credential in June. In the meantime, anyone want to help us pack?

YOU ARE THE APRIL FOOL

Did any of you bother to check out what "Seafoid Cruthanta" actually means? It's not a quaint village in western Ireland. It's (approximately) Gaelic for "total bullshit."