Monday. Well, I've spent the day at the training center preparing materials and computers for the classes. Tomorrow I'll start lecturing. I feel drained already. I wonder what languages the students will speak; trying to think in French all the time is giving me a headache. Or maybe it's the bottle of red wine from dinner last night. I'll have to ( Read more... )

My friend Geraldine loaned me a book "The Dark Night of the Soul" by Thomas More to read. Interestingly enough, it recommends writing a journal as well, which is something I already had in mind to do. So, onward ( Read more... )

Ah, the weekend. I'm up to my ears in work but I've learned (finally) to make time for other things. My band did our monthly gig at the pub yesterday, had a good turnout and I think we actually stayed together and sounded musical most of the time. (That's always gratifying, whether anyone's listening or not.) Had a nice dinner afterward, then got ( Read more... )

OK, this may not be news to anyone else, but I just saw an ad on Sci-Fi channel talking about Dr. Who coming in March. Hope they don't butcher it up too much.

The history of the Celts, as told by hardcore engineers ( Read more... )

And no, not in the grand sense of Life, the Universe, and Everything. I doubt I could take a good cut at answering that question in a few paragraphs of text. Or even in a few thousand ( Read more... )