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 other books. I’m flying through this stuff.
Beowulf is never going to cruise along, [...]
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.
It’s funny. I don’t care who you are.
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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 me some feedback.
Teaching Philosophy
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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 doctor’s appointment and our Matrix for its 15K mile service.
And I started grading another batch of freshman papers.
And that’s [...]
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.
I saw it on Slim’s blog, and it looked cool, so here are the locations of my blog’s last ten visitors:
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
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Orange, California
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Amf Ohare, Illinois
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Conyers, Georgia
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Germany
Berlin
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Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania
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Kingsport, [...]
GO COLTS!
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 every semester, the value of these meetings, both as exemplary for the practice [...]
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 out with two meetings on Friday.
I need to write some David quizzes before that [...]
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. I’m glad that I spread out the revision days over more than a week [...]
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