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 problem–the lectionary text for that week is Ezekiel 37, a text that I’ve always wanted [...]
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 and Guinevere and Mordred are all dead, and the rest of the knights have become [...]
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 students (if they’re reading) and to my readers (if they’re not students) that I assigned [...]
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
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 in entirely different directions in each class, and at no time did we stop to [...]
Here are some long-overdue Micah pics. I took them a couple Saturdays ago at the park. February 2008
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 dodge-toddler for the last four days.? Tomorrow I might write something after classes, or I [...]
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 of human life.? Thus I have not written here for a while. At any rate, [...]
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 from first instinct and requiring the most detachment to compose, whether orally or in letters. [...]
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, again unsuccessfully.? Micah woke up again.? When I came back, I uninstalled, reinstalled, and repeated [...]
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 alongside a hard drive crash that wiped out a few hundred of Micah’s pictures. GC [...]
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 home, so I figure I ought to write a few words about it.? First the [...]
