10/18: an afternoon of latin

It's Saturday, and it's fall break--a perfect time to go into the office for some uninterrupted work. I spent five afternoon hours there today, working on arranging the second half of my Vulgate Latin course. I chose texts, wrote assignment sheets, typed up some commentary that might help the students, drew up schedules for them (and me), and copied CDs with manuscript images of the passages they'll be translating. It was a luxury to allow myself to get consumed by it all, to have such fun with teaching preparation and with Latin.