Dad at Work

Today begins a new season in the Smith house, when Dad (that, all of a sudden, is me) goes to work, and J stays home with the baby. There won't be as much time for writing anymore. Our bedtime has moved from 10:30 to 8, and there is a little boy to play with once I'm home. Here, however, are some of the literary/musical highlights from the past weeks.

Reading Iliad 8, Bede, and Aquinas, Euripides, Luke, Juvenal finished re-reading some Virgil; in English, read the Jane Eyre, the CS Lewis Letters Vol. 3, Tender is the Night, A Passage to India, and The Book Thief and currently reading The Help.

Played Roberto Sierra's Sinfonia No. 4 on an RPO program with Bolero, and also lucked into playing the attached Symphony 101. I believe it's been so long since I've blogged that I would need to include the Mahler 2 program on that list (top 3 performances I've ever been a part of) as well as an unsuccessful trip down to Charlotte.

Currently thinking and arguing about: The meaning of Romans as it pertains to a completed or continuing Jewish hope, Hebrew construct chains, Christian education, the diminution of Advent in the liturgical calendar, and how one goes about raising a child.

My best find on the internet in quite some time:
http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/index.php
http://yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini/

I have the following list of literary projects, and wonder which should come first. Thoughts?
-A written account of the final days of J's pregnancy, through James' birth and first few days
-A typed prospectus for a popular book on Authority to send to Christian publishers
-A typed prospectus of a translation of the 3rd Harry Potter book into Latin to send to Bloomsbury
-A humorous pseudo-academic work on Paliurnus, the first trumpeter killed by the gods
-A conspiracy theory alleging that William McKinley's assassination at the Pan-American exposition was the beginning of an effort to keep the seat of federal power from relocation to Buffalo, culminating in the sabotage of Buffalo sports teams
-A beginning guide to poetic meter and pronunciation
-The Pile of Dirt (a children's book)