Since I’ve received word that I’m going to get tenure, you’d think that I might have more free time. That’s probably the case for more than a few academics, who reach this big milestone and then promptly cease working. Not me, though. It seems like I’m busier than ever. Oh, …
When it happens it’s a quiet thing. I didn’t expect it to come with trumpets or fanfare, of course — indeed I can’t say that I’d ever thought about what to expect at all — but now that it’s here I find myself thinking about the how even as I …
When I Chaucer’d a short passage from Robert Jordan’s Eye of the World, I mentioned that I was planning to do something longer from one of the later books. Well, here it is, folks. Inspired by my time here at JordanCon. A bit from the Jordan-Sanderson last book. Not a …
It’s been awhile since I Chaucer’d something — taken a passage out of a book and translated it into the Middle English of the end of the fourteenth century — and I’ve been feeling the itch again. Since I’ll be heading to JordanCon this week, I could think of no …
Some weeks ago, I bought a bike. The fact that I haven’t posted about it surely shows how busy I’ve been — because it’s a cool bike and it’s worth talking about. Indeed, since I live and work at a college and I ride the bike in the biggest city …