Wuxtry
2.02.2005
Well, posting has been a bit irregular of late. There's all kinds of news to report!
My friend CH just returned from a job interview at UT-Martin, a couple of hours away from Nashville. He said it was a positive thang, and it looks to be the kind of place that he, WH, and JH could settle in for a stretch. Shel and I are overjoyed for them -- here's hoping for more good news on that front soon.
Shel resigned as Books Editor for Paste. She'll be finishing out her last issue with a special feature on comics, which I'm writing the odd bit here and there for. Should be a good one, and a nice note on which to end her work for the folks at the magazine. I've wanted Shel to end this job for a while, and she finally did it. I'll likely write more about this anon.
On a lighter note, I've been getting my butt handed to me on Xbox Live for a week or so now, and it looks like a number of my old compadres in Chapel Hill are Live-enabled, too; hopefully PM and I can square up to meet online in a day or two and administer/receive some beatdowns from the rest of the Halo 2 community.
Shel and I think we found a church, after a long time without one we liked in CH. It's called Grace Chicago, and it meets in a rented theatre downtown in Wicker Park. We've made a few acquaintances there, and hope to find some friends in the group. It's a small church -- between 75 and 120 folks -- and the pastor is the emergent church's version of an organic intellectual. He doesn't really know what the emergent church movement is -- he's just been informed that "he's doing it." That's pretty cool.
I'm teaching online again, after a break of a year or more. Yes, it's back to work for Nashville State CC. And you know what? It's nice to get back to it, frankly. I'm a little disarmed at how at ease I am with the whole thing, but this time around, I know my worth, and I know just how much I should put into the course for what they pay. That, and I can teach it in my sleep and still do a better job than most people out there who are trying...nyuk nyuk nyuk! Seriously, I want to see if I can locate the optimal point on the effort curve between quality and opportunity cost. Ultimately I'd like to take on multiple sections at once and deal with our consumer debt. Eyuuuh!
My friend CH just returned from a job interview at UT-Martin, a couple of hours away from Nashville. He said it was a positive thang, and it looks to be the kind of place that he, WH, and JH could settle in for a stretch. Shel and I are overjoyed for them -- here's hoping for more good news on that front soon.
Shel resigned as Books Editor for Paste. She'll be finishing out her last issue with a special feature on comics, which I'm writing the odd bit here and there for. Should be a good one, and a nice note on which to end her work for the folks at the magazine. I've wanted Shel to end this job for a while, and she finally did it. I'll likely write more about this anon.
On a lighter note, I've been getting my butt handed to me on Xbox Live for a week or so now, and it looks like a number of my old compadres in Chapel Hill are Live-enabled, too; hopefully PM and I can square up to meet online in a day or two and administer/receive some beatdowns from the rest of the Halo 2 community.
Shel and I think we found a church, after a long time without one we liked in CH. It's called Grace Chicago, and it meets in a rented theatre downtown in Wicker Park. We've made a few acquaintances there, and hope to find some friends in the group. It's a small church -- between 75 and 120 folks -- and the pastor is the emergent church's version of an organic intellectual. He doesn't really know what the emergent church movement is -- he's just been informed that "he's doing it." That's pretty cool.
I'm teaching online again, after a break of a year or more. Yes, it's back to work for Nashville State CC. And you know what? It's nice to get back to it, frankly. I'm a little disarmed at how at ease I am with the whole thing, but this time around, I know my worth, and I know just how much I should put into the course for what they pay. That, and I can teach it in my sleep and still do a better job than most people out there who are trying...nyuk nyuk nyuk! Seriously, I want to see if I can locate the optimal point on the effort curve between quality and opportunity cost. Ultimately I'd like to take on multiple sections at once and deal with our consumer debt. Eyuuuh!
