Monthly Archives: November 2008

I’m Changing my Name to Fannie Mae

Posted on 2008/11/11 by ngilmour

YouTube Clip This is a great old song, updated for 2008. The funny thing is that, listening to it as a kid, I had no idea what they were talking about. I suppose that’s what happens when good songs and … Continue reading →

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Jeeves and Wooster: Should Have Stopped after Three

Posted on 2008/11/10 by ngilmour

After we went to Wall-E on Saturday, we came home and put Micah to bed, and then Mary and I watched the very last episode of Jeeves and Wooster, an A&E series from the early nineties which we’ve been watching … Continue reading →

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Wall-E World

Posted on 2008/11/09 by ngilmour

WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW After a good day at the park yesterday (I realized while there that I’ve still got pictures of Micah at the state park beach on my memory card, a sure sign that I’m quite behind on uploading … Continue reading →

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Grading Papers on a Saturday Morning

Posted on 2008/11/08 by ngilmour

I hope my students appreciate this.? While my wife and son sleep in, I’ve been up since six o’clock on a Saturday morning, finishing off some grading before a three-year-old makes such things impossible.? The things I do to get … Continue reading →

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A Good Bourgeois Warm Fuzzy

Posted on 2008/11/07 by ngilmour

When I was giving Micah his bath last night, he pretended to be Daddy, up early on Saturday morning and making cinnamon rolls and coffee so that Mommy could sleep a while longer.? I know he wasn’t role-playing scenarios of … Continue reading →

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Is Freedom an Illusion?

Posted on 2008/11/06 by ngilmour

We finished the Consolation of Philosophy with a bang today, and Dr. Freer came in on a very animated class to boot.? I started both classes with a fairly detached discussion of what chance is for Boethius, and we extended … Continue reading →

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Good Visit Overall

Posted on 2008/11/05 by ngilmour

Well, I’m back from Emmanuel College and back from church.? Today has been the most anxious day I’ve had in some time–I’ve given conference papers and seminar presentations before, but those just weren’t the same sort of critter–I knew going … Continue reading →

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Does Evil Exist?

Posted on 2008/11/04 by ngilmour

We had a really great class in both sections today.? We began by tackling Boethius’s famous distinction between fate and providence, and the class followed along pretty well as we worked out the categories.? Boethius calls Fate the temporal unfolding … Continue reading →

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One More Election Day Thought

Posted on 2008/11/04 by ngilmour

Of course, I’m going to be posting later today about Boethius class, but for those of you reading in the morning, I’ve got one more brief thought on the ’08 election cycle: How cool would it have been had Bill … Continue reading →

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Now it’s Just Absurd

Posted on 2008/11/03 by ngilmour

Hank Williams, Jr. just called my house and told me to vote for John McCain.? I really can’t wait until this is over.

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A Shout-Out to the Dante Readers

Posted on 2008/11/03 by ngilmour

My little site has been averaging more than eighty hits a day for a good week now, and my first impulse, of course, was to congratulate myself for writing such good material.? But a look at the numbers put me … Continue reading →

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A Most Important Vote

Posted on 2008/11/02 by ngilmour

Tuesday?? Nah.? I’m talking about seven days from now when the congregation of Athens Christian Church votes whether or not to appoint me a deacon.? Marv, our preacher, informed me not long ago that in the latest round of nominations … Continue reading →

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Chips on the Table

Posted on 2008/11/01 by ngilmour

Perhaps I’m just slow on the draw, but it’s finally dawned on me, emotionally, that in four days I’m going to be talking to a group of faculty and trying out for a real job.? I knew it, of course, … Continue reading →

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