The weekend is winding down and it’s been a good one. Today, my wife has been catching up on some of her projects and I’ve been finishing up the laundry, which has been strangely pleasant, partly because I used the downtime to start working again on my thesis. My goal is to have it in my thesis advisor, Dr. Bennett’s, hands by the end of November. It felt good working on it. Right now I’m mostly just reading through it and making small changes here and there to the wording of things. Whenever I start working on it, I have to spend a few sessions just getting it all in my head (remembering arguments I sketched out years ago). I’m feeling very optimistic about it. I finally got around to framing my other two diplomas. Now I want this one sitting along side them.
An article I wrote for the Society for Philosophy and History of Education (SOPHE) and delivered at their conference last fall in Oklahoma City has finally been published (in the Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, volume 50, 2000) and there’s also a version online (though they left out my illustrations, which confuses things a bit). It’s my first journal publication, and I’m proud of it despite the fact that it’s in a journal no one has ever heard of. The SOPHE site is a perfect example of the sort of web design you get when the only trick in your bag is to press “Save as HTML” in Microsoft Word. I should offer my services as a favor.
I don’t do it very often, but I really enjoy transcribing songs on guitar and doing simple acoustic arrangements of them. Yesterday, I did a little known Bob Wills tune called “Goin’ Away Party” that my friend James Katowhich played for me the last time we got together to play music. I’ve always thought it would be nice to build up a small set of songs that I can play and sing, so we’ll call this the first one (I know lots of songs, but I couldn’t play them if you put a gun to my head. But I’d like to know more of them all the way through and be able to recall them when I’m playing with friends, instead of having to always rely on James’ near-perfect memory).
Oh well, the weekend it over and it’s time for recreation. I’m going to surf up some more classic video games, before some court order shuts down the fun. :)