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Month: <span>September 2009</span>

Month: September 2009

A Pleasant Weekend Passed

Things have been quiet since Friday since there’s not been much for me to report.  The weekend was pleasantly spent going to the Gibbes Art Museum, attending the home opener on the Citadel’s football schedule (pasted Presbyterian College), and writing a book review for that was requested by the Journal …

The Wonder of Knowing Very Little

I constantly tell my students that human knowledge is always subject to emendation. That’s the beauty and curse of living in a rationalized, post-Enlightenment age. Our greater understanding of the world has, perhaps paradoxically, left us with fewer reliable facts. Like most things in life, this existential conundrum is perhaps …

Mythology Lectures

I’m teaching mythology for the first time here. It’s a lot of fun, but it is a lot of work. This is especially true because I’ve been making fancy-pants PowerPoint presentations to cover the material in class. I’m still quite new to the software — I know, don’t laugh — …

First Grading Weekend

I’d say something about having two stacks of papers on my desk waiting to be graded, but that would be inaccurate. I have an inbox full of two batches of digital documents waiting to be graded. I’m still not sure how I feel about this whole digital papers, digital grading …