I’m getting very, very tired of being ill. I can hardly remember a period of such prolonged blechitude in my life. It’s been months since I could say I was 100% chipper, and that ain’t right. Alas, it’s so bad at the moment that I might actually have to cancel …
I like Charleston. I really do. But I’m finding I don’t like the catkins around here. Heck, I didn’t even know what catkins were until recently. Pictured at left, they’re the male part of the pollenation process of oak trees (apparently), though I know them only as the clouds of …
After all of our work moving rooms around in preparation for Child 2.0’s arrival, we’ve now set ourselves upon an attic and closet purge. It’s good to do this now and then, as one can all too easily turn into a packrat forever hauling around stuff that will never be …
I’ve been utterly swamped with meetings all week — a little bit on the faculty side, but mostly with cadets keeping me in my office through the evenings in order to chat about their work in progress. The vast majority of these have been students from my Honors Tolkien class, …
Lots of grading this weekend, but I’m almost through it now. Just in time, too, since I have a couple projects that are otherwise on my mind. I’d much rather be working on them, I’m afraid!