For reasons I do not yet understand, it appears that I’ll not be teaching Tolkien in the fall. I’m teaching it this spring as an Honors course, and it’s the largest such course in recent memory (most Honors sections are apparently in the low-teens; mine has 22). I have been …
I’m grading today. Morning ’til night. So in lieu of anything of profound importance, I offer up this proof to doubters (you know who you are) that the “Road Runner Song” I occasionally sing is, in fact, quite real:
I’ve been sporadic around here for a bit, which I regret. It’s simply been atrociously busy hereabouts. We’ve been interviewing candidates for an open position in the English Department (18th century specialist), and that’s been taking up a lot of time. On top of that, the Hobbit and Wife have …
Went to the Citadel basketball game this afternoon, in which the Bulldogs pounded their cross-town rivals: the College of Charleston Cougars, 72-63. It was a great, loud game — all the better for the cadet victory.
Yesterday brought news that I’ve had another Tolkien article accepted for publication. This one was co-written by one of my very good friends: A. Keith Kelly, an Assistant Professor at Kutztown University, who specializes in Old English and Old Norse. Keith’s a terrific fellow medievalist who I met at the …