10/19: What I Accomplished Today

1. Meetings for School and Department. Interesting information, but not a thing that couldn't have been sent in an e-mail.

2. Came home and napped.

3. Because of meetings, I wasn't able to go to award dinner for mother-in-law. She didn't win, but for being nominated, she'll be inducted into a Hall of Fame, which is cool.

4. Television and Pogo badges.

5. Level 39 Dwarf Rogue. She should work on Honor in PVP venues, but I'm not that interested. She should finish the Deadmines so she can get the final quest in the Stockades so she gets the Seal of Wrynn; I don't think she will. I've finished the Deadmines eight times. I don't really care if I do it nine. It's a nice ring, but I don't think I can stand to do the Deadmines again (at least, not unless I want to farm wool & linen for some reason).

6. Read more in What Paul Meant. He argues persuasively that Luke alters important facts in Paul's life, but I haven't seen a discussion of "why" yet. That's what I'm curious about now.

Not a terribly productive day.

10/18: What I Accomplished Today

1. I don't think I mentioned that I finished What Jesus Meant two nights ago. I've been reading What Paul Meant. Wills' contention, or one of them, is that Luke had various reasons for relaying the life of Paul in ways that are inconsistent with what he himself says in the letters; that's been an interesting discussion.

2. Television and Pogo badges.

3. Level 38 Dwarf Rogue. Arathi. Dinged 39. Mail check; having a hard time keeping track of who needs who for the Book Chapter quest. Also worked on professions so that people have auction items for the weekend. (I still have seven...well, six mounts to buy. Can't miss weekend auctions.)

4. Played some Miss Management.

I have meetings tomorrow, so I'd best get to sleep.

10/17: What I Accomplished Today

1. Went to a meeting for Professional Development for the school district; I'm my college's representative. Very interesting and informative.

2. Taught a class.

3. Television and Pogo badges.

4. Level 38 Dwarf Rogue. Alterac. Hallow's End started. Took the rogue through the sequence; I don't think I'll do it with anyone else because it just leads to little funny silly treats that put you in costumes for brief periods of time. Not that thrilling.

5. A little Flo, a little Build-a-lot.

10/16: What I Accomplished Today

1. Went to a software demo. Didn't see that it did anything that I would like to have done that can't be done with current software.

2. Prepped two classes, graded three classes, taught a class. (I have to cancel tomorrow's office hours because of a meeting, so the work that would normally happen then had to happen today.)

3. Television and Pogo badges. (This, of course, also encompasses General Hangin' Out and Conversing.) Watched a particularly interesting Nova about the circumstances around the genome that causes certain genes to be active or inactive. (This has a name that will be a second-nature word soon, but isn't yet, and I'm not coming up with it right now.)

4. Level 37 Dwarf Rogue. Stranglethorn. Dinged 38. First Aid quest and Racetrack & Theramore clean-up (including finishing Missing Diplomat).

5. Played a few levels of the Hometown Heroes. It's fun, but I don't want to play 30 or 40 levels in a row like I used to want to. Also played Build-a-Lot for awhile.

6. Read a little in What Jesus Meant; the last 25 pages are taking awhile because there's stuff I actually want to know.

10/15: What I Accomplished Today

1. Prepped a class, graded a class, taught a class.

2. Television and Pogo badges.

3. Level 37 Dwarf Rogue. Fished. Stranglethorn.

4. Yesterday's BigFishGame was a Sudoku thing; I played 30 minutes or so before I decided I wasn't really having any fun. Today's is Mahjong Roadshow. (Hasn't Mahjong Roadshow been the BigFishGame of the day two or three times before?)

5. Thought I'd finish What Jesus Meant today, since it isn't very long, but that probably isn't going to happen. I'm pleasantly surprised by the book.

6. I have a training class tomorrow morning (not early in the morning, but morning, nonetheless), so I should go get some sleep. We'll see if I actually do, but that's what should happen now.

10/14: What I Accomplished Today

1. Puzzle Day. We brought sammich stuff. Then we lost.

2. Took a nap.

3. Level 36 Dwarf Rogue. Desolace.

4. Television and Pogo badges. Watched Bill Maher (only New Rules; everything else just feels like work, lectures delivered by people, most of whom are less informed than I) and Bill Moyer.

Co-Vivant wanted to watch a show that several calendars concur that December 21, 2012 will be the end of civilization as we know it. I'm not convinced. The claim was that the I Ching was one of the concurring calendars, but it was an extrapolation from I Ching that is unconvincing to say the least. The internet spider predictor--oh, for heaven's sake. Interesting coincidences, certainly, but let's not use it to plan, shall we? I know History Channel has to air the occasional sensational piece because they do well in the ratings, but really. (And the hysterical tone of voice of the narrator sounds less urgent than in need of some sort of medication.)

5. I did finish In the Company of the Courtesan last night and started What Jesus Meant because a woman in book group is reading his new book and wants to read this one and the Paul one, which I'll read next; then we'll swap.

6. Level 36 Dwarf Rogue. Desolace. Dinged 37.

10/13: What I Accomplished Today

1. Went to two really good sessions at the Conference before we presented. It went pretty well.

2. Book group. Had not finished the book (In the Company of the Courtesan), but I wasn't alone. Apparently, the book takes an unusual plot turn, so people didn't want to talk about it until everyone had finished it; we'll do it again next month.

3. Came home. Co-Vivant had low blood sugar.

4. Checked mail & auctions in World of Warcraft. Do not have the energy to play.

5. I think I'll see if I can finish this book before I go to sleep.