Michael Livingston

Feb

29

Writing a Speech

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Spent most of the day writing the speech I’ll give in about a week for the induction of Robert Jordan into The South Carolina Academy of Authors. It isn’t long — just 1600 words — but it was rather difficult to say all that I wanted to say, how I wanted to say it.
It’ll […]

Feb

28

New Review on ratemyprofessor.com

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I needed something to smile about this evening:
Dr. Livingston is one of the best professors that I have ever had. He is very helpful and very understanding — not to mention super intelligent. He really cares about his students, and you can tell this as soon as you meet him. He is just a great […]

Feb

25

Vote Bull Moose

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There are many reasons to like Teddy Roosevelt. Take, for example, this, from a letter he wrote from Oyster Bay, NY, on 1 September 1903:
There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, […]

Feb

24

Encapsulating Robert Jordan

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I’m just about all recovered from my illness now, and with recovery comes good news.
In a couple weeks James O. Rigney, Jr. — a writer known to most of the world by his pseudonym, Robert Jordan — will become the 47th inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors. It’s a tremendous honor, one […]

Feb

19

Back to Work

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Went back to the grind today. I’m still not near better, but I’m far closer than I was last week. Never again will I take the word “flu” in vain. I used to say things like “Oh, I had a 24-hour flu bug” or some such. No more. I’ve had the flu for real. I […]

Feb

15

Bored, Bored, Bored

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Bedrest blows. Can’t do squat. Can’t walk. Can’t really talk.
Blech.
The only thing making it tolerable at the moment is season 2 of HBO’s Rome. Good stuff. Useful for my mind, too, since Four Shards has many of the same characters.

Feb

14

Influenzavirus A

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Not a little “flu” bug. No no. The real, bonafide Influenzavirus, type A.
So that’s why I feel so horrid. The doctor actually laughed a bit, saying the diagnosis was pretty easy since there weren’t many respiratory problems that could make a person look as bad as I do. Gee, thanks. He said he’d had […]

Feb

13

Misery and Woe

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Can’t move. Can’t think. Can’t hardly breathe.
And the gorram doctor — I actually broke down and called a professional — can’t see me until tomorrow morning.
I thought about going to the ER — it really feels like that — but without a bullet in my gut I’d probably just lay around in even […]

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