The New Semester, It Draws Nigh!

[eldritchhobbit]

Hi there! Happy Friday, everyone!

1. Tremendous thanks to all of you who took part in my poll about my October posts. (It's still open, if you wish to participate.) I really appreciate your feedback! My countdown will indeed be appearing here in October, and I truly hope you enjoy it.

2. Students from five different continents are enrolled for my "Science Fiction, Part 1: From Modern Beginnings through the Golden Age" course for Mythgard Institute, and I couldn't be more thrilled! Registration is still open for this class, and it's also still open for my one-time live lecture event on "The Hunger Games and the Science Fiction Tradition."

3. Happy early birthday to roo2, darthsindel1981, ceosanna, amygrech, dormannheim, super_chik, dement1a, and funkyturtle. May all of you enjoy many happy returns of the day, my friends!


The Fall 2012 semester begins for me next week, so I feel the need to get my ducks in a row.

What I'm Teaching - Fall 2012

• "Science Fiction, Part 1: From Modern Beginnings through the Golden Age" for Mythgard Institute


• "100 Years of Literature about Single-Sex Worlds" for Lenoir-Rhyne University

Where I'll Be - Fall 2012

• "The Hunger Games and the Science Fiction Tradition," a live "Looking Back on Genre History" HoloDeck lecture sponsored by StarShipSofa, online event


• 2012 Free Minds Film Festival at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
  Talk: "The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong and The Soviet Story" (appearing virtually)


• The McConnell Center at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky
  Talk: "The Trail of Tears through Cherokee Eyes"
  (Also directing student seminars on 1) "The Politics of The Hunger Games" and 2) The Road to Serfdom)


• Potterfest 2012: A Harry Potter Celebration at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina
  Talk: "Finding Dumbledore's Mother: Harry Potter's (Native) American Context"


• Catawba County Executives Club Meeting in Hickory, North Carolina
  Talk: "'I Take My Life in My Hand': A Tale of Two Cherokees and the Trail of Tears"


• Broken Arrow Senior High Homecoming in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (receiving the Great Graduate Award from The Broken Arrow High School Alumni Association)

"If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?"
- Steven Wright

Comments

[sittingduck1313.livejournal.com]

I once wrote up stats for Bertie and Jeeves using the Savage Worlds system.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

I haven't done anything so direct, but years ago, in a friend's fantasy campaign, I created a GURPS character based on Bertie. The setting was Brust's Dragaera, and I had decided that he was Tazendra's nephew, and suddenly the image came into my mind of Tazendra as one of Bertie's terrifying aunts. . . .