Another Student Publication
Another of my freshmen students has had his essay accepted for publication in the Lesser Squawk. Congratulations, Michael Nicholas!
Updated C.V.
I realized today that my online C.V. was distressingly out of date. So I’ve uploaded a new copy that includes forthcoming papers and work in progress (like Brunanburh). It’s not exciting reading.
Google Presentations and Tolkien Lectures
I spent a good couple of hours this afternoon building the next couple of lectures for my Tolkien class. It’s been interesting. Partly because it’s Tolkien, of course, but also because I’m doing the slides using Google Presentations instead of PowerPoint. I’d frankly grown tired of being forced to remember …
Reading my Own Work
I had no pressing work to do yesterday, so at long last I had the opportunity to read over my completed draft of Shards of Heaven. I wanted to give it another once-over before making a big agent push this year. I meant to do it months ago, but I’ve …
Besito Caliente
I have a great family. As a for instance, my brother, bless his heart, gave me a gift for Hanukwanzmastide this year, despite the fact that we’d agreed not to give each other anything. And it wasn’t even to make me feel guilty. No, what he gave me was a …