Category: academia
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Richard Rolle abandoned the intellectual life and his academic training at Oxford to take to the frock in meditation upon the name of Christ. He didn’t have much of an… more ›
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Well, I never intended to transform this into a photo-blog! (Or is anyone saying “phlog” yet?) It’s just so much easier to see something that catches my eye that I… more ›
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Today is the last day of 2008–an arbitrary date and an arbitrary number. The older I get, the more in sync I become with natural time: the phases of the… more ›
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How academia is turning me into a stingy and petty academic. When resources are already stretched too far, the small benefits afforded students and professors in the humanities become necessary… more ›
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Only two classes down. But for the third class, I already have an incomplete/extension. So, for the most part, I’m done with the semester. Done with coursework altogether. Not counting,… more ›
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That’s right: I’m bringing bullets back into fashion. Just in time, since some whack-ass bastards are trying to get an open-carry law passed in Texas. Just what we all need:… more ›
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Yes, I am the backwater, poor white trash that created a Facebook event page for World Philosophy Day. UNESCO, the sponsor of the global event, did not create one. Neither… more ›
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Saturday evening was “opening time down on Fascination Street.” Stephen and I went out to the Halloween street party on Cedar Springs for the first time in several years. Overall,… more ›
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I wish that I didn’t feel like I had to choose among getting a decent amount of sleep/rest completing all my reading assignments exercising having a social life having a… more ›