Prairie Dog Professor Pops Up Again

My online professor reappeared yesterday -- the day after the program director and the dean both promised me they would be having a talk with him. He has not yet responded to student discussion posts, but he has posted the lectures that have been missing for more than a month.

He sent us an email apology, and explained that he "has a hard time writing for more than three hours a day" and this class had not been his only writing activity. As some of you have already pointed out, that excuse would never be accepted from a student.

I'm glad to have him back. It's hard to have a graduate school class without a professor. But I'm waiting to see if he actually makes a significant contribution beyond the lectures.

We are not impressed.

Bibliophile's Lament

Someone, somewhere, must have written a song expressing the frustration of a book lover with too many books to read, who keeps buying books even when there are unread volumes piled next to overflowing bookcases, and who is falling even further behind because there is both required reading and pleasure reading. (If anyone knows of such a song, please send it to me!)

Being on LiveJournal is not helping. Thanks to conversations with thomryng and queenofhalves I've been cheerfully ignoring the reading I'm supposed to be doing for my classes and buying books I'd never considered before. In addition, of course, to the books I was buying anyway.

Here's the list. . .

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Then there's the required reading for my classes, which I'm *not* going to go into here.

Did I Mention It's a Very Slow Day at Work. . . .???

Become a God or Goddess. by zerogirl
Name:
God/Goddess of	Rain
Element:	Earth
Animal Companion:	Dragon
Weak against	Ice
Weapon:	Cutlass
Created with quill18's MemeGen!

Of course, it is acknowledged by most of my friends that I am already a goddess.

Because Two of You *Did* Ask. . . .

Thanks to queenofhalves and cookingwithgas for asking about the struggles I was having with Swedenborg’s visions.

Those of you who have an interest in Swedenborg’s writings, problematic aspects of mystical visions, or my thoughts on these subjects can click below. The rest of you probably will want to skip on to something else.

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