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!
I’ve been kinda sorta busy of late (what’s new?), but I thought I’d pop up here to report five items of good news. 1. My mother underwent a successful surgery last week. All else pales beside this good news, but I did promise five items… 2. I’ve been reappointed for …
Only five weeks to go, if the Ring (sequel to the Hobbit, get it?) is on time. Odds are decent that she’ll be early, so we’re in full nest-making mode around here. The nesting began with last week’s big move of furniture, and it continues now with all the “little” …
I recently received a rejection from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, for my deliberate deus ex machina tale, “At the End of Babel.” A bummer, of course, since I still think it’s a very fine piece, and I’d like to see it in print. That said, there is …