Monthly Archives: February 2007

My Marcuse Break

Posted on 2007/02/24 by ngilmour

I find myself blessing Herbert Marcuse. After five weeks of Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, and Lukacs, we’re finally reading a book whose Germanic style doesn’t require minutes per page and whose words mean, for the most part, what they mean in … Continue reading →

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Micah Pictures, I Think

Posted on 2007/02/20 by ngilmour

Recent Micah pics With Micah’s birthday coming up and Uncle Ryan flying down, I cleared our camera’s memory card. Here are a couple recent pics.

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Third Post Down

Posted on 2007/02/17 by ngilmour

It’s funny. I don’t care who you are. Link

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My current draft of my teaching philosophy

Posted on 2007/02/17 by ngilmour

At UGA this semester I’m in the process of putting together a university-approved teaching portfolio, and one element of that portfolio is a teaching philosophy. Here’s my current workup of that philosophy, and I hope my faithful readers can give … Continue reading →

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Into David

Posted on 2007/02/16 by ngilmour

A busy week it’s been. I presented on Georg Lukacs in our literary theory class and by all accounts did well. I translated another 150 lines of Beowulf. I read another book-and-a-half of Milton criticism. I took Micah to a … Continue reading →

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Sorry

Posted on 2007/02/08 by ngilmour

I realize the chart below is hard to read, but it also gets mad and crashes my browser when I try to edit it, so I’m going to learn my lesson about grumpy html and leave it alone.

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Last Ten Posters

Posted on 2007/02/08 by ngilmour

I saw it on Slim’s blog, and it looked cool, so here are the locations of my blog’s last ten visitors: 1 United States Kalamazoo, Michigan 2 United States Orange, California 3 United States Amf Ohare, Illinois 4 United States … Continue reading →

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Okay, I have to say it

Posted on 2007/02/07 by ngilmour

GO COLTS!

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More Revisions

Posted on 2007/02/06 by ngilmour

So here I am, between revision meetings, scrambling to say something to each paper as it comes to me. I’ve got six more groups to go (I think), and each one wears me down a bit more. As I say … Continue reading →

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Revision Meetings, Day One

Posted on 2007/02/02 by ngilmour

So far none of my students has fought me when I suggested rewriting. Audrey Guenther, are you reading this? Monday groups pick up a bit, and the whole shebang culminates on Wednesday, when I meet with four groups, then finishes … Continue reading →

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Not much time for bloggery lately

Posted on 2007/02/01 by ngilmour

This semester really is turning out to be a grinder. But if I make it through this one, I’m done with major coursework operations. Mission Accomplished, one might say. Well, one might. The Psalms unit just plain went too fast. … Continue reading →

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