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Henry Imler September 17th, 2008

So far this semester I have turned in my second thesis chapter and gave my first lecture. I did the former a few weeks ago; the latter this afternoon. It went quite well. Overall, I think I am pleased with how it went. There was definitely enough material to work with as I had to cut out several parts [1] and shorten others. [2] I really had to cut short my description of the Acts of Philip and the Acts of Thomas’s depictions of the Jews as a religious other. That I think is my largest self-criticism. That was really important and I just did not give myself the time to explain it fully. What should have taken 5-8 minutes had to be done in 2. The other thing that I worry about is if I talked over their heads. I had a hard time knowing what a freshman in college would get and not get. I might post the audio of it online sometime – if I like what I hear. I am trying to edit my notes into a post, or perhaps a post series. We’ll see how that goes.

Mega-Man 9 is a coming out soon! I am pretty stoked about that one. It is being released in a week in Japan and over here shortly after. [3] The bosses are looking good, the art is looking good, and they even have a nostalgic press kit which features a game box as an NES cartridge.

I really wanna try out The Force Unleashed. Money is a bit tight right now, [4] so dumping $60 on a game is a bit frivolous. Man, I wish the 360 version had multiplayer on the 360. I guess the 360 and the PS3 just can’t handle the three independent physics systems in the game over an Internet connection. I wish there was a way you could revert to some old physics engine or something when you played online. Oh well. I could always go for the Wii version that has dueling saber battles.

What else is going on? I hope to get more than 4 hours of sleep in a given night… Oh, that reminds me. I am really looking forward to this weekend. Meredith, Scott, Sarah, Alan, Patty, JR, and Amanda are coming down to Meredith’s parent’s house for the weekend. We will just hang out. That’s it. [5] And I have a sermon I’ll be giving at Meredith’s dad’s church. It should be a great time.

Ok, Meredith should be calling me soon, so I’ll end things here. Oh, wait a tic. I wonder what Shakespeare would say if he were alive today? (Thanks Digg)

such as the distinction between popular and official religion and how that impacts early Christian scholarship [↩]
such as a discussion of how we can reconstruct liturgical elements of early Xian practice from the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, such as the Acts of Thomas [↩]
I’m too lazy too look up the date [↩]
I get paid in the rears, so I won’t get paid for TA’ing until the end of this month for the first time since school got out last year [↩]
well, and grade quizzes and respond to paper drafts [↩]