...when you're not traveling at the speed of light.
It's been over a month since I last wrote, and in that time, hurricane season has begun, "heat index" has taken on a new meaning for me, and summer classes have begun for good and for ill.
I do not anticipate massive amounts of water falling from the heavens before I drive back to Pittsburgh next week, so I'm not in crisis mode. That will come at the end of the month, which will bring with it two manuscript deadlines. With any luck, they'll be done beforehand, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my two undergraduate medical ethics classes and graduate research methodology course will be occupying my time (in addition to several volumes on Abrahamic monotheism). The fun never stops in the twisting and turning life of a professional philosopher.
Recently granted tenure
In other news, the Louisiana pilot light was relit, so the furnace is back on. It's been in the mid-90's all week, and they had to come up with new numbers to describe the humidity. I spent yesterday at the pool, and am rather lobsterish at the moment as a result, but the swim felt nice. And then I got in the pool.
The classes are winding up and down. My graduate students will be submitting their final papers soon, which will result in a flurry of paperwork. My undergraduates have been submitting bibliographies, and having a hard time recognizing that one-page letters and book reviews probably aren't going to be offering extended arguments they can use to develop their own positions, which will produce a flurry of panicky e-mails that will be answered by information in their syllabi.
Anyway, all will be well once I'm back North, in the Land of Reasonable Summers.
Alles Gute.
