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1. My publishers have chosen a new title for the fourth book: Corambis. Please adjust your television sets accordingly.
2. Still waiting for my edit letter on same. This is making me tense and grouchy, so if I seem a little off, it's not you. Also, there was insomnia last night, which never makes anything better.
3. Approximately three hours after I turned in Corambis on August first, I got a call from my erstwhile department, wanting to know if I was interested in teaching an upper level course in seventeenth century literature this semester. (I.e., junior and senior English majors, and it's an elective course.) Yes, they said enticingly, you can teach anything you want.
I said yes.
(The quick rundown on the course reading, for them as are geeky enough to be interested: Lady Mary Wroth; John Donne (with quick side trips into Herbert and Vaughan); Ben Jonson and the Cavaliers (mostly Lovelace and Herrick); country house poems (Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell, and I'm throwing in Denham's "Cooper's Hill" because it isn't a country house poem, but I'm thinking it'll be an interesting counterpoint); Hamlet; Volpone; The Atheist's Tragedy (yes, there is a logical connection there); The Revengers Tragedy; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; The Changeling; and we finish out the semester with The Pilgrim's Progress.)
I'm actually kind of deeply geeked to get to do this.
2. Still waiting for my edit letter on same. This is making me tense and grouchy, so if I seem a little off, it's not you. Also, there was insomnia last night, which never makes anything better.
3. Approximately three hours after I turned in Corambis on August first, I got a call from my erstwhile department, wanting to know if I was interested in teaching an upper level course in seventeenth century literature this semester. (I.e., junior and senior English majors, and it's an elective course.) Yes, they said enticingly, you can teach anything you want.
I said yes.
(The quick rundown on the course reading, for them as are geeky enough to be interested: Lady Mary Wroth; John Donne (with quick side trips into Herbert and Vaughan); Ben Jonson and the Cavaliers (mostly Lovelace and Herrick); country house poems (Jonson, Aemilia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell, and I'm throwing in Denham's "Cooper's Hill" because it isn't a country house poem, but I'm thinking it'll be an interesting counterpoint); Hamlet; Volpone; The Atheist's Tragedy (yes, there is a logical connection there); The Revengers Tragedy; The White Devil; 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; The Changeling; and we finish out the semester with The Pilgrim's Progress.)
I'm actually kind of deeply geeked to get to do this.
