Started teaching yesterday. Seemed like good students overall. I’m exciting to start warping shaping their minds. I’ve scheduled my office hours for Wednesday afternoons, and it’s too early for many folks to be stopping by (the big rush comes after I turn back papers for the first time), so I …
Today was convocation, an annual ritual in which college professors welcome incoming freshmen by dressing up in preacher robes, wearing funny hats, and then getting really sweaty since it’s the end of August and no one in their right mind ought to wear such things when the humidity is high. …
For some reason, WordPress 2.5 had nuked my post categories. Everything appeared as “Uncategorized” no matter what I did on my administrative end. The new update, though, has them working again. Phew!
Oops. I ordered a replacement drive for our laptop and it came today. I got out the handy-dandy screwdriver and ripped the guts out of the Sony only to discover … and there was some sad cursing here … that I’d somehow ordered a SATA drive when my old laptop …
So I just finished the synopsis for Four Shards of Heaven. It’s only 1000 words long, but I have to say it was a difficult 1000 words to write. How do I distill everything that happens in this book, with all the different points of view, into less than one …