Half an hour ago, I was washing dishes in the kitchen. My flatmate, coming in for a bowl of cereal and looking like he wanted to sleep, asks, "Oh. You aren't asleep?"
I look at my watch. "It's only a quarter past midnight," I say, with only the slightest irony.
A quick summary of our situation: Katie and I have been living in the ( Read more... )

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As I looked out my office window this evening, it was snowing. Small flakes were drifting down past the street light, to meet their demise on a soggy pavement. I like to look up at night when it's drizzling and watch raindrops fall towards me, illuminated by a street lamp. I have never done this with snow.

This evening I heard an excellent invited lecture by a chap from Oxford University, one Dr. John Lennox, a mathematician and apologist. His primary topic was a discussion of the new atheism, and there were many provocative things which he had to say ( Read more... )

Tonight I walked back from my office at 11:30pm, the latest that I have worked since August, at least. The Chaplaincy is closed in the evenings, starting tonight, so there was less motivation to come back ( Read more... )

Tonight, Cathy came home. Her term has been spent abroad in the study of ( Read more... )

From the blog of Leland McInnes, a Canadian who is in the enviable position of having completed his Ph.D., comes a hypothetical look at what it would be like if we tought English with the same pedagogy as mathematics. His conjecture? It would be a dry, irrelevant, joyless subject. I don't have the time to explore the issue in this space at the ( Read more... )

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And the seasons, they go round and round,
and the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel of time.
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came,
and go round, and round and round
in the circle game.

On Monday, if I had been paying attention, I would have observed the first ( Read more... )

Here in the Chaplaincy at Heriot-Watt University, the atmosphere is usually as international as you could ask for. There are plenty of people who use the facility, and it often seems like the only underrepresented group are the Scottish.

However, there is one group who seems to make more effective day-to-day use of the ( Read more... )