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At the beginning of the summer I posted my goals for the time "off" between school years. You were all wonderfully optimistic that I could accomplish everything I set out to do. Perhaps I was capable, however I did not manage a 100%. I'm not really surprised. Life has a way of taking over...
Here is the list along with the percent of each task I managed and the final total for the summer.
- Minimum 60 page, full-draft of Thesis. 75%
- Read at least one novel for Post-Colonial Lit Course. 100%
- Read all material assigned for Lit class I’m teaching. 10%
- Prepare syllabus. 100%
- Prepare plan and recipes and then teach cooking class. 100%
- Type all my recipes, print them, and put in a binder with sleeves. 100%
- Sort and bind all the articles floating around my desk. 100%
- Sort and file all my lesson plans and activities. 0%
- Spend most evenings and weekends with Jared and the boys. 100%
- Begin instructing Alex and Luc with the Alphabet and Catechism. 100%
- Celebrate the half-birthdays. 100%
- Have weekly family feasts on either Saturday or Sunday evening. 0%
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So I have a big project sort-of kind-of in the works. Mostly it is just notes on paper at this point, but I am working to develop a clear plan and settle on the scope and time frame for it. As I have been working on a draft of my Master's Thesis I have been ruminating on the kinds of scholarship I would like to be working on, in the future.
I am very much inspired by the work of Boise State's own Steven Olsen-Smith who is responsible for the Melville Marginalia Project. His work with Herman Melville's library is quite fascinating (to nerdy people like me) and it just so happens that the author I am most interested in (three guesses as to who that is) had reading habits much like Melville's.
So, my hope is to develop a resource similar to the Melville Marginalia Project (which I have the inexpressible privilege of interning with this Spring) for the books and reading of C.S. Lewis. Naturally it will be something that I blog about as I work on it, and I can only hope that it neither takes over my life (as projects are wont to do), nor gets shuffled off to the side as the school year tries to kill me...
On Bullshit
Yes that really is the title of a book.
This slender (really, really slender) volume is an engaging analysis of what exactly makes bullshit bullshit. Is it falsity? Degree of insincerity? Sheer volume of words? It should only take you a few minutes to read the entirety of its 67 pages to find out but I should like to share a few quotes that were the highlight of the book for me.
"Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life..."
There then follows a brief and telling take-down of post-structuralism (without the naming of it as such) and this gem about the elevation of sincerity over correctness:
"Convinced that reality has no inherent nature, which he [the bullshitter] might hope to identify as the truth about things, he devotes himself to being true to his own nature. It is as though he decides that since it makes no sense to try to be true to the facts, he must therefore try instead to be true to himself."
An incisive little volume as far as it went, which wasn't far...
Biographical Fragment
The year I was twelve there was a 357 magnum in the toe of my Christmas stocking. It was far from the first gun in our house and certainly not the first I ever fired. I still have it. Like a fast car may be, it is a source of strength and courage. I love to shoot it. I am not so foolish as to imagine that I ever could use it effectively as a means of self-defense; years of association with macho-gun culture has given me a decidedly realistic perspective on how little we may do to stave off vicious attacks. Hearing men posture about what they would have done and never hearing what they did do in a dangerous situation made me realize how humans can alter history in the retelling. Still, despite being sure I'll never use it for it's ultimate purpose, I have a decided fondness for that wildly age-inappropriate gift. I love the smell of burned gun-powder. I love the movement of a weapon as it fires, kicking up and back. I love the concentration and focus of gently pressing the trigger until the hammer releases and the controlled explosion cracks in my ears. I love excelling and I'm a damn fine shot.
I was rather grown-up before I first realized that a pistol might not be a normal gift for a not-yet teenage girl. Living in northern Idaho gives one a rather different sense of "normal". Normal was pistols open-carried even in church. Normal was every member of the family "filling" a deer tag each year whether they ever actually hunted it themselves or not. Normal was reloading ammunition at home because it was too expensive to buy. Normal was a thirteen year old girl packing a loaded .357 while playing in the woods near her house.
Is it just me or was that not even remotely close to normal?
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