Due at midnight. So I’m frantically trying to get all the other stacks off my desk in preparation. So far so good. A lot of grading done, and I just finished reading over the Master’s thesis I have to grill tomorrow. Oh, and no new kid yet. 🙂
It’s that time of the term: the last surge of days and duties before the end of the year. I’ve been particularly swamped with students wanting me to look at their research papers before they have to turn it in, which is generally fine. It just means that, come the …
Child 2.0 is due on 9 May, in less that three weeks. Child 1.0 was a couple weeks early, and it’s apparently statisically likely that a second child will arrive earlier than a first. Any bets on my daughter-to-be’s birthdate? I’m putting my money on 26 April, because that would …
Robert Frost’s 1915 poem is quoted a lot here at The Citadel. It’s in The Guidon — on page 16, knobs! — which is the standard “how-to-be-a-cadet” book that must be memorized by all students. It’s on posters and admissions materials. Heck, it’s even referenced on the cover of a …
I thought today, for no good reason at all, about the Novel-writing sketch by Monty Python. The “video” below is audio only, but it still gets the point across: