Monthly Archives: February 2008

New Responsibilities at Athens Christian

Posted on 2008/02/29 by ngilmour

Mary and I have volunteered to teach the high school and junior high kids at church on Wednesday nights, and we start this Wednesday.? Then, on March 9, I’m delivering the sermon on Sunday morning. Now the sermon isn’t any … Continue reading →

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The End of an Age and the Bible’s Michael Corleone

Posted on 2008/02/28 by ngilmour

We talked about the deaths of David and Arthur today and the radically different worlds and politics they leave behind. When Arthur dies, he takes the world of chivalry to the grave with him. By book’s end Gawain and Lancelot … Continue reading →

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Monkish Knights and the Bible’s Boba Fett

Posted on 2008/02/26 by ngilmour

Classes went much better today.? The pace was still more hurried than I prefer, but we actually got into some substantive discussion rather than the flyover survey I gave last Thursday. Before I proceed, I have to confess to my … Continue reading →

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Micah’s New Coat

Posted on 2008/02/23 by ngilmour

There are some pictures of Micah and Pap-Pap and Charlie at the zoo as well, but I’m putting it up here mainly so that Mom can see his new coat. New Coat

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David and Arthur in Fast Forward

Posted on 2008/02/22 by ngilmour

That’s what Thursday’s class felt like.? I had to give the first two lectures on research papers and run discussions on about seventy pages of Malory’s Morte d’Arthur and 1 Samuel 16-2 Samuel 10, all in seventy minutes.? We went … Continue reading →

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Micah at the Park

Posted on 2008/02/21 by ngilmour

Here are some long-overdue Micah pics. I took them a couple Saturdays ago at the park. February 2008

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Flu Break

Posted on 2008/02/20 by ngilmour

I’ve already had one person contact me wondering where the blog went.? The answer is relatively simple: for the few days after we got our computer back, I was playing catchup.? Then Micah got the flu, and I’ve been playing … Continue reading →

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Revision Meetings Over

Posted on 2008/02/13 by ngilmour

Ah.? I can re-emerge into a vaguely human world.? Revision meetings are over. I’ve read and marked up approximately a hundred sixty pages of freshman prose in just under five days, and I did so while performing the other duties … Continue reading →

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Last Day of Lyric

Posted on 2008/02/05 by ngilmour

Although I never did quote Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility” line, we did spend a fair bit of today’s class talking about the tendency to articulate moments of sublimity and emotional intensity in poetry, that form of language most separated … Continue reading →

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Tech Stupidity

Posted on 2008/02/04 by ngilmour

Just a quick story. Last night I finally got around to installing our printer’s drivers on our reconstituted computer.? I installed once, unsuccessfully, and Micah woke up, so I had to put him back to bed.? I uninstalled and reinstalled, … Continue reading →

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The Computer is Back

Posted on 2008/02/04 by ngilmour

On one hand, it’s great that I now have a hard drive four times the size of my old one, twice the RAM that I did before, and DVD/DVD-R drive. On the other, it rather stinks that those events came … Continue reading →

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Teaching Psalms, Week in Review

Posted on 2008/02/01 by ngilmour

Here I am, avoiding the (digital) stack of papers before me, knowing full well that I’ve got a full day’s work between me and sleep again. That said, I had a good week of teaching amid my stormy week at … Continue reading →

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