Everything but the commonplace book
Welcome to the new Drasty Speche. The paint isn’t dry yet—and in one case, the room remains unfinished. I think you’ll like what you see, though. My course syllabi are better organized, and I have a useful means to keep track of various (public and private) projects that I’m working on. I’m no longer shackled by the blog-only structure of WordPress: I’ve been liberated by Django.
If you’re wondering what happened to all of my “blog” entries, they are on hiatus, as the title suggests. I’ll be adding them when I have time to get the appropriate database structure in place—by Christmas at the latest, I hope. (There are a few pieces of programming witchcraft that I don’t understand, and I have more urgent things to attend to than figuring them out right now!)
Here is some news:
Zora’s first word is “Hi,” which she started tentatively using around July 19. Now she’s an old hand at it and loves especially to say it to people in restaurants. Other potential words in her vocabulary now include ball, dada, and mama, though this is mostly speculation.
I’m teaching two classes this semester: Nature in Literature and the Core Writing Seminar. Their syllabi are available through the links to the right.
Although the commonplace book is blank (other than this entry), I’ll keep writing. And when I’ve actually got something working, you’ll read it here.
Oh, and something weird is going on with my unicode support, so if you encounter a server error, don’t be alarmed. I’m already on it.
PS Happy birthday, Zora!