Back to work. Back to syllabus writing and lining up assignments and the like. It is a time intensive process, especially so when you’re preparing a new class. I’m taking over an older course and revamping the thing, so it will be a work in progress until the final. (Next year, if I’m asked to teach it again, it will be even better. Until then, it is an almost entire-rebuild.)
So that takes time and daydreaming and emailing and so on and so forth. It isn’t particularly interesting for most people, so there’s no need to get into it here.
Instead, here are a few things I’ve photographed in my homemade light diffuser box. I’m having far too much fun with the thing. I wonder if I’ll run out of interesting things to shoot before the novelty wears out.
Good thing I’ve got a lot of interesting things, I guess.
Here are two of them now. This was my grandfather’s Bible. It is the first one he ever used as a preacher. A friend gave it to him on his 16th birthday. She wrote inside that she hoped he would use it in such a way that she could say “I knew him when.”
He wrote a verse from Isaiah beneath her note.
And while that was my grandfather’s Bible, this was his father-in-law’s pocket watch:
I remember him, one of the five greats- I knew. I can’t find out really anything about this particular watch. It is like a very mass-produced piece, and not even particularly old. But it looks sharp, doesn’t it? That’s not even the diffuser box. It looks sharp in your hand, too. If I wasn’t afraid of losing it I’d buy a chain and start wearing the thing.
And it would be amusing watching the guy teaching a social media class going into his pocket to pulling that out.
