Summer and travels
I’ve seen a number of posts on people’s blogs about summer plans and reading lists. Maybe one day I’ll get a summer vacation again! (A professorial summer probably just looks like research plans and class preparation rather than lazing about in the sunshine reading novels). For now though, what is quite hard about doing a PhD is that there is no ‘down’ time given to you; you have to make it. Hopefully this looks like actual hard work rewarded by a good rest. More often than not, I tend to procrastinate and turn out decent work rather than my best.
So, if I could make a summer reading list that was long and involving I’d like to read:
–the entire collected works of Francis and Edith Schaeffer
–current emerging church stuff to see what it’s about; how the people involved are defining it; what’s helpful about it and what may be too wishy-washy
–a number of books on teaching and educational theory
–All of Nathaniel Hawthorne
…and probably loads more as the inclination stikes. I’d have to throw in the requisite fun, silly novel as well for holiday reading. (Our first summer here in Scotland we went on holiday to Greece and I took Joyce’s Ulysses for fun reading; um…I made it through about 100+ pages).
Although I might not get loads of fun reading in, here’s what our spring/summer looks like so far:
May — Trip to Prague with the indomitable Canadian duo, David and Neyir
June — Friends from CA are coming to visit mid-June; Ashley flies home to interview at Providence; Bryce’s family comes and we go to Skye
July — Ashley’s family comes for Bryce’s graduation; trip to Amsterdam for a week and London for the weekend; pack, move and all craziness as we think we’ll be moving back to southern California.
August — move from Ashley’s parents’ home to an apartment. Try to buy cars and subsist on ramen noodles until we get a pay check.
May 18th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Indomitable??
Defn: Indomitable:incapable of being subdued
I think i can be very subdued. At least that is what people tell me. I guess when you combine me with Neyir though, we become unstoppable.