Friday, December 21, 2007

Seven Random Things

Janet tagged me for the seven random things meme, so here goes.

The rules:

Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.

Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.

Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.

Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.


(1) Books currently on my desk: Theodore Abu Qurrah, John C. Lamoreaux, tr.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals
The New American Bible
Ephraim Radner, Spirit and Nature: The Saint-Médard Miracles in 18th-Century Jansenism
Nicolas Malebranche, The Search after Truth
Pierre de Bérulle, Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 6: Cortes traites
Bérulle and the French School: Selected Writings, Thompson, ed., Glendon, tr.
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

(2) Most recent movie watched: Layer Cake

(3) Number of end of term projects that were not picked up by students after grading: 26 (and I had to lug them around half a day!)

(4) Usual drink at Starbuck's: tall Chai

(5) Earliest book I clearly remember reading: Caroline E. Rush, Tales of Mr. Pengachoosa

(6) I came home from work this afternoon to look this song up on YouTube.

(7) One of the philosophical works that was never finished but that I wish had been is William Whewell's story on the earth and the moon (you can find part of it in Todhunter, Chapter XX). It's early science fiction (probably early 1860s).

I tend not to tag, but anyone who wants to jump in should feel free to do so.

(And Joe takes up the challenge.)