It's been an unreasonably long time. If you're interested in seeing what I'm up to lately, let me know, and I'll either start making updates again (I rather miss this format) or point you to where I'm sharing crappy little local updates ( Read more... )

Here's my entry for Vacation Necronomicon School "How to Write an Eldritch Horror" -- it's got everything.  Erudite poetical references, Miskatonic University adjunct writing faculty.  Meta-fiction.  Jokes that aren't funny!   William James!

Read it! I dare you.

Re-reading Emerson's Nature for the thirtieth or fortieth time at least.  Transferring my old insights into a new book: re-marking down the underlines and asterisks that flag my usual pauses, dawdles, explications down.  This will be the second time I've taught the essay more or less unhurriedly and at least nominally completely (having 2 1/2 hours ( Read more... )

I nearly lost a publication opportunity due to a spam filter.   Our technology punishes us for not jumping through periodic hoops.  Mild paranoia seems like a requirement.  I am chastened, and will be digging through more diligently in the future, I'm sure.

I never feel quite right unless I'm procrastinating something serious but relatively minor.  ( Read more... )

I'm teaching a graduate course in transcendentalism.  As a part of it, I'm requiring students give 19thC introspective journaling a go:  requiring that they put up or write down a commonplace book and record their sights and insights.  So.

I figure I'll do it, too.   When I'm regularly writing a commonplace book, I wind up bringing more ideas and ( Read more... )

Teaching may-mester, which is killing me, but relatively quickly and painfully, so there's that.  Once it's over, I'll take a day or two to recover (I'll need it, and then launch into Operation Do Real Research, Get Publications and Keep My Job.

But in more exciting news, I'm instrument geeking as always. Been playing the Anglo Concertina, and got ( Read more... )

Just finished watching the film adaptation of Watchmen.

It's definitely about as good as I could have expected.

I'm not sure yet whether I will seriously assert that I find the adaptation despicable and inhumane.   I'll need to think more about it.

So, one day after turning in grades for the semester, we went out to have a meal in a nearby town, and have come down with The Food Poisoning ( Read more... )

Google Books is going to get much much better. 

Fourth day without power.  Chainsaws everywhere.  Living life by rechargeable battery.

Meanwhile, I have a fabulous cute little laptoplet. And am reading a fun biography of Thomas Paine, my favorite international terrorist.

Fun fact of the day: around the era of the American revolution, the average life expectancy was 36.6 years.

Woo!