I didn’t run yesterday morning, cos I was getting ready to catch a plane to San Diego to attend this year’s SBL/AAR meeting. (I’m also giving a paper at the pre-meeting NetVUE conference, about which I blogged last time, I think). Travel went smoothly, if not exactly comfortably. … | Continue reading
I didn’t run this morning due to the snow, but I did go in to Morning Prayer after a cup of coffee. Then I stopped at Throwing Buns for a cup in town, picked up toothpaste, came home to some errands, ran out for our Confirmation Class, back home for work and dinner. I have… | Continue reading
Two satisfactory miles this morning — started slow, limbered up gradually, then tired toward the end. Jolly cup of coffee, caught up on email, answered an online request for typeface advice (in the course of which I discovered Coelacanth (with Greek!) and Beuron, which I added to … | Continue reading
The star (so far!) of the Dudley/Hefling collection, a Parker Duofold Centennial in Jade Green, with an italic nib, here inked with Diamine Meadow. I am not a Parker guy in general — I respect most of their pens, but they typically don’t sing to me the way other pens do. This pen … | Continue reading
At least, that’s what I did this morning. I did run short bits, but my body didn’t want to; I’d get a twinge in my knee, or ankle, or the place where I tied my trainers too tight (before I un- and retied them about a half mile in). And I didn’t want to try… | Continue reading
As I expected after yesterday’s good run, today my legs were heavy — slow to limber up, early to tire — but the run was fine, if slow. Hot breakfast this morning, coffee, cleaned up and set about drafting my response to John Dear’s The Gospel of Peace, for which I’m giving a resp … | Continue reading
I had a very good run this morning — hardly any discomfort, and a good pace. Follow that with a cup of coffee (no fruit alas), shower, Morning Prayer at church, walk in to R&R to put something in my coffee while I work on my presentation, squeeze in a little productivity between … | Continue reading
Reasonably good pace for my morning run, then a cup of coffee and fruit while I read applications, cleaned up and went to church for Morning Prayer, caught the X3 to Oxford, deliberated over applications, ran some errands, came home, and resumed parish odds and ends. | Continue reading
After Monday and Tuesday on the Church of England front, I’m pretty worn out. I’ll paste in some observations I posted on social media below. I ran yesterday with my knee support, and this morning with just bare muscle, ligament, and bone. Well, enclosed by skin. Gentle run yeste … | Continue reading
I’ll go back and fix the typos from Friday that are glaring at me from the editing window, but I want to catch up first. Saturday morning I got my flu and COVID jabs (‘I’m giving the flu jab in your left arm because there’s an ‘l’ in ‘flu’, and the COVID jab in the… | Continue reading
Two heavy miles, cup of coffee, shower, Morning Prayer, working coffee with Margaret at R&R, lunch at Ortiel, New Testament seminar this afternoon, then home for the weekend. Sunday’s homily has been resisting me, I have some marking to do, admissions preparation, | Continue reading
Two good miles (after a bit of a lie-in for me, woke ay 6:30), coffee and fruit, cleaned up, then off to Morning Prayer, to Oxford for tutorials, then home again to work on Sunday’s homily. Billionaires do not conduce to general economic health — so (and this has been said before … | Continue reading
Ran this morning, legs felt okay (especially as they warmed up), but my heart is heavy for reasons all will understand. Coffee, hot breakfast, Morning Prayer, mid-week Mass, staff meeting, then the afternoon to mark tutorial essays and breathe deeply. | Continue reading
Yesterday morning I got up and ran my morning miles, a good run though nothing spectacular. The day was sepcial, though, since it was Margaret’s birthday. I had a cup of coffee, and fruit, before cleaning up and dressing for church, after which I joined in Morning Prayer and met … | Continue reading
Two adequate miles this morning, followed by coffee, fruit, crumpets, and a shower; the parish has only one service today, the All Saints Sunday service which will be the final service led by our Team Rector. Tomorrow will be a whole new world. | Continue reading
I was meditating on the Feast of All Souls, and sought to remember whether I hasd preached on this feast. So I searched my trusty outboard memory when sure enough, in the year 2022, Fr George Westhaver invited me to preach at Pusey House. I brought the day and the readings in con … | Continue reading
Ran my miles this morning at a good, though not noteworthy, pace. Coffee, hot breakfast, then rehearsal for tomorrow’s All Saint’s Sunday service. Now, more odds and ends that had been suspended for a bit, but an otherwise relaxing day. | Continue reading
My October in music at last.fm 1 The Lemonheads 16 scrobbles 2 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists 12 3 Juliana Hatfield 9 4 Michelle Shocked 6 5 Alabama Shakes 5 6 Belle and Sebastian 5 7 De La Soul 5 8 k. d. lang 5 9 R.E.M. 5 10 The Slits 4 As always, the… | Continue reading
Good run this morning in chilly weather. Not limber, but adequate leg liveliness and breathing. Cup of coffee, some grapes, a shower, on my way to Morning Prayer then check phone messages and a breakfast date with Margaret at R&R. Much, much to do. | Continue reading
So I let the blog slide for four days. At least I didn’t write about running! So, Healing and Wholeness went well. Monday morning I had a mediocre run, heavy legs and a slow pace. Tuesday was only a little better. Yesterday morning when I sat at my desk and started putting my tra … | Continue reading
Friday afternoon’s memorial service for Dr Glenn Black of Oriel was sublime, both in the general sense of ‘celestially beautiful’ and in the more technical sense of ‘so surpassing comprehension as to inspire awe’. I knew Glenn only very, very casually. We met at Burns Night at Or … | Continue reading
My work week will spill over to tomorrow, so no real ‘day off’, but that’s the lot of the part-timer. Ran my miles this morning in 13°, so perhaps this is the last no-hoodie exercise day. Coffee, fruit, shower, email, Morning Prayer, coffee, crumpets, marksheets, then I’ll go to … | Continue reading
My morning miles went very well today, much to my surprise. I felt limber and as strong as I needed to be — so tomorrow I’ll probably stumble along for a two-mile stagger. Then coffee, finishing up reading tutorial essays, fruit, Morning Prayer, the X3 to Oxford (slow as molasses … | Continue reading
Two miles this morning at a good pace, coffee, shower, Morning Prayer, then another cup of coffee with Margaret at R&R, then a tutorial Confirmation Class, then weekly Staff Meeting. I should be marking tutorial essays this afternoon, then an afternoon spent on marking. | Continue reading
Slipped to the third day again, but my running on Sunday and yesterday was good, on the whole. Sunday we had a healing service in commemoration of St Luke, which went very well. Yesterday the Remnant Clergy team prepared our rota for November, December, and January, I went for to … | Continue reading
No run this morning, though (since the rain has stopped) it’s not out of the question that I run later today. Coffee and hot breakfast, scrambling to produce a corrected service bulletin for tomorrow’s Mass, and gradual emergence into wakefulness in general. | Continue reading
Yesterday wasn’t a proper run, but this morning was a run, and a good one at that. Sadly, the weather is very foggy, but because I switched from the BBC’s weather app to the Apple app, I didn’t get the satisfying (if somewhat mystifying, no pun intended) MIST or FOG weather descr … | Continue reading
My legs weren’t stiff or heavy this morning, but sleepy — as I felt in myself, to be honest — and running just didn’t properly work this morning. I put in my two miles, but I wouldn’t dignify them (even within the low standard of my exercise dignity) with the description ‘running … | Continue reading
The temperature was hovering around 1° last week, so of course this morning’s run took place in warm, humid 15° weather. My legs took a while to wake up, but before halfway they were loose and comfortable, so that I finished at a good pace. It was probably the last time this year … | Continue reading
Practically every day, somebody asks me, ‘AKMA, you know David Weinberger; he’s obviously an internet pundit, but what kind of guy is he really?’ (Well, not every day. In fact, I’m not sure anybody has ever asked me. But I wanted to talk about him, and this seemed like an easy wa … | Continue reading
Woke up near 6:00 (which is late, for me; I was awake late with the Rector, who came over for dinner), trainers on, ran my two miles at an adequate pace, coffee and fruit, shower, and Morning Prayer. I have a meeting this morning to plan for next year’s Women’s Day of Prayer, and … | Continue reading
In a new personal best ill-judged decision, I went ahead and ran this morning despite the drizzle that was falling when I first checked the conditions. By the time I had put on my trainers, hoodie, and (I thought, cleverly) a windbreaker shell, the drizzle had gotten heavier. By … | Continue reading
Woke up early, ran two miles in the 1° (‘Feels Like’) air, legs were all right and felt positively loose by the last 100 metres or so, but nothing to boast about. Coffee, fruit, shower, finalised the homily, to church for the 8:00 Mass, did odds and ends around the church till th … | Continue reading
Having located my hoodie, and having woken about a half hour before rain was expected to resume, I had no excuse for not getting up and running. I was stiff and creaky, and I set a diffident pace, but I did run my two miles. My leg muscles and related tissues protested mildly at … | Continue reading
So, AKMA, how did your retreat go? The retreat was lovely — Aylesford Priory is a splendid place for spiritual meetings, retreats, or what you will, though rooms in the Old House can be inaccessible indeed (I expect the rooms in the conference area are accessible). Mysteries of t … | Continue reading
I sat at my desk yesterday morning, fully intending to write a post just after I said Morning Prayer — but something distracted me, and off we go again. Yesterday’s run was once again a ‘dead-leg’ effort, making my way past and through the set-up for Abingdon Fair. It was a surpr … | Continue reading
Not referring to our back garden, though that might be an even more apt referent for the title — just, my miles this morning felt dully slow, tired, ineffectual. I did run, however, so full marks for that. It’s expected to be rainy tomorrow, and I’m going on retreat from Monday t … | Continue reading
I’m glad to know so many octogenarians, but… My father died at 72.* Jean-François Lyotard died at 74, as did Derrida. Wittgenstein was only 62, for heaven’s sake. We won’t count all my rock’n’roll heroes who died young. Anyway, I really want to see that hermeneutics book written … | Continue reading
This morning brought the coldest morning since springtime, as my miles ran through 2° clear, lovely air. I thought my pace was pretty lively, but when I checked the time on returning I was mildly disappointed by how long I’d taken. Ah well, never mind. Running, coffee, shower, Mo … | Continue reading
Ran my miles this morning under cool clear skies, at a pleasing pace. Coffee, shower, Morning Prayer, then another cup of coffee with Margaret at breakfast in the town centre, at R&R; home now, till the [Adult Baptism and] Confirmation Class at 14:00. Working on the All Saints Su … | Continue reading
In order to catch up on this before I fall back to third-day blogging: (a) I’ve run each morning, and somewhat to my surprise ran to a moderately satisfactory pace this morning; (b) Went to the Parish council Monday evening; (c) Worked up a sermon for this morning; (d) Holy Commu … | Continue reading
Kate has endorsed ‘The Longest Day in Chang’An’, which I should be able to watch with English subtitles on Viki. I’m not counting on Margaret being interested, but I’ll definitely put it on my to-watch list. | Continue reading
The Met Office suggested that there’d be a brief window of no rain, or just drizzle, so I ran my short route — closer to a mile and a half than two miles — in what turned out to be consistent light rain. Curiously, the temperature is warmer outdoors than indoors (we haven’t turne … | Continue reading
Woke up after a good deep sleep, ran my two miles at a good pace (with some starting and stopping as I responded to texts from Margaret, reporting on her overnight flight home), made a welcome cup of coffee and enjoyed a fruit breakfast. As I started out in the chilly air, the sk … | Continue reading
All right, it’s evening already, but this is still just the second day after my last post, so… progress. Ran this morning in the cold, and wasn’t it just? Both of the last two days I’ve settled for very modest paces, not really limber enough to push for a stunning personal best. … | Continue reading
I seem to have fallen into the habit of posting only every third day, at which I am dissatisfied; I will have to try harder to post daily. At least I haven’t omitted anything urgently vital. I have run for the past three mornings, in drizzle, light rain, and very light rain respe … | Continue reading
Well, those three days went by in a whirl of sacraments and sermons and celebrations (and sleepiness). Friday’s wedding went very well, I think, and afterward I walked home and collapsed on the sofa out of overwhelming weariness. Saturday I devoted to reading Wrede and working on … | Continue reading
Both of the last two mornings have made the occasion for good runs. Yesterday my legs started out with that heavy, loggy feeling, but gradually relaxed and brought me home at a decent pace. This morning I limbered up more quickly, and wound up running the whole two miles at a ver … | Continue reading