The Nerdy, Wordy, Reading Life
And it wasn’t even for school! If you are even remotely capable of enjoying science fiction I highly recommend Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun. I posted about the tetralogy this summer here and I just finished the follow-up volume Wolfe’s publisher insisted on: The Urth of the New Sun. It was wonderful [...]
So it turns out that this addictive reading thing is genetic. Alex, my almost-three-year-old, is a big time reader. When we put him to bed he sneaks out and gets a pile of books and then sits at the top of the stairs and looks at them for hours. They go to bed at eight [...]
As I become ever more deeply immersed in my school work, I find more and more depths of gratitude for this opportunity. It is a gift of history that I live in a time and place that this kind of education is open to me. I can afford this opportunity because BSU needed Teaching Assistants [...]
This weekend I have: -read 60 pages of Malory -written a response paper to that reading -read about Bibliographies and Literary Research -reviewed student papers -attended a forum on Faith and Intellect -fought allergies/a cold. …and once again I am worn out. Still, I am loving this life. My studies are just challenging enough to [...]
…that sometimes changing your circumstances really does make you happier. I had thought that was a fallacy. I have often seen people change their circumstances, trying to make themselves happier, and seen it fail horribly and frequently. This had led me to believe that only changes in one’s attitude or perspective could make one happier. [...]
It seems that with every passing week Alex and Luc become more interesting and more fun. They have both been talking up a storm lately. Luc is particularly astonishing since he is not even two years old yet. Either of them will repeat almost anything we say…which is fun and dangerous. When he is in [...]
I think I just finished all the homework I have to do this weekend. I wrote a one-page response paper* to the 60 pages of Malory I read. I prepared a presentation and handout about the Early English Books Online database. I prepared a rough draft of my lesson plans and handout for the third [...]
Due to my new schedule and the craziness it entails, I’ve decided to stop using Twitter and Facebook. I would like to blog more and I have often felt that my blogging energy is dissipated among half-a-dozen Tweets and status-updates. But if there is anything you’ve been dying to know about daily life for a [...]