Monthly Archives: May 2008

Full Study Days Over

Posted on 2008/05/16 by ngilmour

I can do this. I’ve still got the lingering paranoia that I’m going to get a long essay on entirely unfamiliar material, but I’m pretty sure that’s just paranoia.? I’m working all day today at Bogart Library, but I’m taking … Continue reading →

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Poetry Day

Posted on 2008/05/15 by ngilmour

Sidney. Spenser. Marlowe.? Donne. Herbert. Herrick. Crashaw. Cowley. Marvell. ’nuff said. I’m spending the work day getting ready to write an exam essay on the poets (other than Bill and John) that Freer is most likely to throw at me … Continue reading →

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Good Reviews

Posted on 2008/05/14 by ngilmour

I just now looked at my customer satisfaction surveys teacher evaluations for the spring semester, and other than one review that said my class is boring because all we do is read texts and discuss them (I’m not sure whether … Continue reading →

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Time Line Complete

Posted on 2008/05/13 by ngilmour

I decided, as the timeline grew, that character lists and plot synopses would have made the timeline of English Renaissance literature so unwieldy that it would be useless for studying. So I called the project to a close this morning, … Continue reading →

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New Gadget and One Week Left

Posted on 2008/05/12 by ngilmour

I just got done installing a portable hard drive and file backup utility on our family desktop.? I sometimes regret sinking money into this machine, but as long as the Internet doesn’t make any sudden leaps on us, it ought … Continue reading →

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Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day?

Posted on 2008/05/12 by ngilmour

I don’t know whether anyone has run numbers on this question (or if I’d read them if anybody did), but I get the impression that, for a few more years at least, Mother’s Day might be a rival to Easter … Continue reading →

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Stress turns me into Santa Claus

Posted on 2008/05/10 by ngilmour

I just uploaded semester grades, and I dread my enrollment come Fall semester. Word’s going to get out that I’ve gone soft. I think I’m just being merciful on the hope that comps will be merciful to me. Of course, … Continue reading →

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Should I be surprised?

Posted on 2008/05/10 by ngilmour

I read this morning that the opening week of sales on Grand Theft Auto 4 outgrossed opening weekend for Iron Man, which is now the runner-up for biggest non-sequel opening movie for a weekend, by one hundred fifty percent. When … Continue reading →

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Milton Day

Posted on 2008/05/09 by ngilmour

Mary wasn’t feeling great this morning, so I drove her to work, and thus I am studying today at Dacula Public Library.? I figured I’d take along Milton, just to brush up, and the morning has been great.? I reread … Continue reading →

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One Aim, and a few thoughts

Posted on 2008/05/08 by ngilmour

I’ve now got all my grades in the computer save one, and I’m waiting for a student’s response. (The student should have shown some initiative and checked the student’s grades and realized that student didn’t have a grade for a … Continue reading →

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Twelve Days to Go

Posted on 2008/05/07 by ngilmour

I’m feeling good now.? I dusted off another theology and lit book yesterday, and I’m in the process of compiling a timeline of the things I’ve read now.? I’ve got three working days left this week and four next, and … Continue reading →

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Another Sermon Preached

Posted on 2008/05/05 by ngilmour

I’ve now preached as many sermons in a month and a half as I did at Bogart Christian in two years.? That’s neither to say that Bogart was stingy nor that Athens Christian is needy; Marv’s car wreck and the … Continue reading →

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Ephesians Lessons Available

Posted on 2008/05/03 by ngilmour

I just posted the third and final part of my Sunday school series on Ephesians.? It’s under the “Sunday School” tab above.? As with all my Sunday school materials, feel free to look at, use, and modify the lessons, but … Continue reading →

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Job Movie Project Winners

Posted on 2008/05/03 by ngilmour

Jo B Good Land of the Living Obviously I can’t reproduce here the presentations that made these ideas so great, but you can get the basic ideas of these very different proposals from their documents.? Congratulations to both groups!

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Man of Letters

Posted on 2008/05/02 by ngilmour

Do I resort to silliness to avoid revising Sunday’s sermon? Yes. I just wanted to point out that on Michial Farmer’s blog (he’s a friend and colleague and overall good dude over in UGA’s English department, and he thinks I … Continue reading →

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Good CS Interview

Posted on 2008/05/02 by ngilmour

Lee Snyder interview If there’s an interview other than the one with Lee Snyder here, click on the last April 2008 interview. As the editor informed me when I wrote an email thanking the magazine for interviewing a professor for … Continue reading →

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