My week and weekend have had definite ups and downs. I'll get the downs out of the way first, so I can move on quickly to the positive: general exhaustion, late-night grading marathons, the new stack of papers to grade that replaced the midterms, the ridiculous arabic test our prof that the entire class utterly failed (omg that pissed me off so ( Read more... )

Brutal Wednesday of classes from 12-7 coming up. But So far the year's been going okay. one week down. I'm really enjoying my language classes. It feels good to (sort of) be taking a break from history, since I'm only taking the one history course. I should be looking into submitting a paper to Kalamazoo though. Bleck ( Read more... )

Hey all, glad to hear that the practice of reading LJ has not been abandoned ( Read more... )

Finished my paper earlier today. Took longer than expected and I'm not entirely sure it was very good... I feel like I didn't really make a strong enough point, but I'm so so so glad it's done.

Now I need to grade papers, and pack for Kalamazoo! I'm SO ALMOST HOME FREE for the summer!!!

Aside from the mountains of homework, it's been a good week/weekend. Thursday out dancing with friends and Casey was amazing. We took Phil and Robert with us and Christine joined us when she got out of class. It's fun to see how much better Robert gets with every time he goes, and it was nice to attend the beginners lesson with Phil - always good ( Read more... )

So, this weekend I had like a panic attack about how much work I have to get done this week. It was overwhelmingly scary. And then Dr. Madden yesterday sent an email saying that because he wants us to busy ourselves at the conference this week, he's canceling class on Monday (we have Teresa to thank for that fab idea!) THANK YOU GOD FOR THAT BREAK ( Read more... )

OMG this is going to be a BEAR of a week academically. HUGE assignment due on Monday, all my grades due Tuesday for my students' papers and midterms, practice lecture due the 21st, actual lecture to all 177 undergrads on the 26th, Manuscripta Conference this weekend... Lots to do ( Read more... )

RMIHC Panels 2009
Sunday, September 13
Session I ~ 9:00-10:30 a.m. ~ Atlas Building
4. Law and Order: Politics and Philosophy in England and the United Kingdom
Panelists:
Brian Kett
Amy Moenning
Joshua Hyles

I present my paper, "Redefining Anglo-Saxon Kingship: Alfred the Great, the Pastoral Care Model, and Asser's Life of King Alfred" at Boulder ( Read more... )

So, I think my Alfred paper is done and ready for conference! I sort of ran out of time to get notes from Ginther on the draft, but I took all his original comments VERY seriously, severely curtailed the beginning, decided on a thesis, and incorporated a bit more research on kingship. I probably did the least of the last, but when you're taking a ( Read more... )

The trip to Iowa was great. I feel like at home I have so many things hanging over my head (will's book, latin final, corrupting sea, conference paper, quals books) and so little summer quickly slipping away, it's hard to feel like I'm accomplishing anything when I actually can get work done. It's been SUCH a busy summer with all the traveling and ( Read more... )