Just getting some final marking finished up at my office (actually its somebody else's but in the evenings I teach I come in early and pretend its mine). I have always had a strange fondness of offices - everywhere else I've always been the fat funny guy, but in my office (surrounded by my books) I am erudite and learned (make sure you pronounce that as 'lurNED') - I am that academic that I thought I was going to be. Once I leave the office I revert back (I often sing show tunes in my linguistics classes and quote Woody Allen as often as Noam Chomsky) but in my office I am thoroughly bookish (my wife says I am even pretentious).

Leaving my big office at the downtown church (complete with eight floor to (almost) ceiling bookshelves) was one of the hardest transitions to make in the whole churchplanting endevour (even when I was only going down after hours and on Saturdays).

Its been nice to get the linguistics and TESOL books out of the boxes and onto some shelves - it was like unpacking a bit of my soul and restoring it to its rightful place!!

Ehkosit,

Migwec.