In my last post — an account of my day yesterday — I noted that I’d stayed up until the wee hours of the morn working on revisions for an article. I sent it back to the editor at something like 1:30 in the morning, and a little over 24 …
Back on an average day in January, I decided to keep an account of what I did for about 24 hours. It was an amusing and interesting experiment, if a bit daunting to look back upon. Today, I did it again. Not counting “little” interruptions, here’s the highlights:
This coming Wednesday evening, at 6:30pm, I’ll be presenting a free public lecture here at The Citadel (Bond Hall auditorium, room 165), entitled “Tolkien’s Creation by Edition: The Medieval Origins of The Hobbit.” It should be a really entertaining and informative time!
It is truly amazing how stacked up my semester got with lectures, and the thick of it is right now. Today I gave the keynote lecture at the Lowcountry Writing Project, and Wednesday night I give another lecture — this time free and open to the public, on Tolkien and …
I’ve been so busy that I don’t think I posted notice of a review of The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook. The review is from a somewhat unexpected source, The Fortean Times, but it’s a very flattering one. My favorite highlights: Many books have been written on the subject over …