The students seemed to be having a largely uniform positive reaction to reading Julian of Norwich - those that did the first reading: I had an abnormally large number not do the reading, resulting in an abnormal amount of absurd answers to their quiz question on the material - and I was pleased to see how they were running with the material. I had ( Read more... )

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Back in and trying to settle down from traveling and visiting family over the Christmas holidays, and revving up to work on Chapter 2 of the dissertation. Just in from Starbucks where I was working on the main text from Sullivan for the chapter. Among other things while traveling, I tidied up a bunch of old computer files on my laptop and glanced ( Read more... )

Still ill, unfortunately. I thought I was on the mend yesterday, other than rasping and choking a bit on Hall's lozenges as I talked with a fun new student named Shannon about the wonders of starting college during my office hours. But last night was the worst of all, and so bad that I canceled my classes for today. So things are still achy and ( Read more... )

My neglected journal lacks summaries of the following fun and interesting adventures. (Part One)

• Cancer surgery - and recovery! Does life get any more exciting than ugly skin thingies on the side of your nose? For over a year I lived with this unsightly hole, and I'm obviously lucky in that this was really so much of nothing that I can just ( Read more... )

Heh. I just opened this note from a student, which opened by paying me a kind compliment, followed by one of the funnier (and more ambiguous) lines I've read in quite a while:I wanted to tell you how awesome today's lecture was. It was one of the best lectures I've had that didn't come from my Dad.

Good days. The last few days have been all really cool for one reason or another ( Read more... )

The end of the recorded journal from the Europe Trip 2006 through Geneva, Venice and Florence.

Tuesday 25 July 2006
3:42pm
Sitting at the gate in Newark right now, waiting for the flight to Milwaukee to start boarding shortly. The last day closed fabulously. What is it today? Today’s the 26th, so yesterday was the 25th. So I think the last ( Read more... )

Unbelievable. I know, I know... everyone talks about how time flies as you get older, and we're all amazed just at the movement of time itself. An utterly human phenomenon. Still. I cannot believe that it's November 9th, 2006.

I cannot believe that it has already been five years since the greatest weekend of my life.

( The Greatest Weekend of My Life )

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