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Month: <span>March 2009</span>

Month: March 2009

640 Gallons of Leaves

Not quite the record I set last year, but it was a lot of raking just the same. What was most depressing, I must say, was looking up into the oak canopy — beautiful though it is — and seeing how many unfallen leaves remain. I suspect I’ll have at …

Bulldog Challenge 2009

After last week’s misery of mid-term + Shako + illnesses anguish, I was very much looking forward to a weekend with nothing but raking to do. I even had hopes of sleeping in a bit this morning, which started off well enough when the Hobbit climbed up into our bed …

The Tripods of Vulcan and Mars

Good title, eh? I’m pleased to make this quick gasp out from the depths of mid-term grading to announce that my article “The Tripods of Vulcan and Mars: Homer, Darwin, and the Fighting Machines of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds” has been accepted for publication by The …

911 Fail

Found this via http://failblog.org/ and am now forced to use it to make a point to my 102 class about the importance of spelling and such things: