UPDATE: My back might be starting to heal, too. It’s now taking only about a 1/2-hour per day of stretching in order for me to touch my toes…
Teaching is starting to get manageable, as the Lesson-Building is reduced to one per week. In this week’s episode, we try to de-program the students from the baldly statis/socialist propaganda of their textbooks regarding the Great Depression…
Also, I’m getting some SEVERE pushback on my Crecy article. Apparently, I hit a real nerve with the publisher’s reviwer, and am now being forced to provide a historiographic review in order to demonstrate that I have the cred to be sitting at the table. Which is hilarious, because anybody who knows me knows that I *don’t* have that cred. Archery issues aside, the Hundred Years’ War is so far out of my specialty it’s not even funny. Though perhaps it should have been, given that linguistically I’m vastly better- prepared for that than for dealing with Taborites. What the hell good does French and Middle French do me studying Central Europeans?
I’m learning all kinds of lessons that will be useful for later stuff, though, since I’m biting off doctoral-size pieces of meat with master’s-level mandibles.
One of my buds is going Active after a long soul-searching. I’m so jealous I could spit, with a bad case of civilian not-doing-my-part-itis. ‘Playing Rasczak’ is a mild consolatia, but not a big one.
On the other hand, somebody’s got to de-program those poor kids.
