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Fall classes have commenced at BGSU. The weather isn’t very autumnal yet, but maybe it will be by sometime in midwinter.

The last time I updated this blog seems to have been five years ago. Not surprising, since people never blog these days–they microblog. You can find me doing that (under my “pseudoplume or nom de nym” James Enge) at Bluesky, on Mastodon, or on Facebook.

I also update the blog on my personal website pretty frequently. (People may never blog, but I do.)

It’s not very autumnal yet, but it’ll get there.

Spread your wings and take to the sky.

Just a pro forma post to keep this blog from falling into utter desuetude.

Have a good Fall!

How dead is this blog? Not entirely!

Here’s a tour of downtown Rome in 320 A.D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_phjB19ZEg

In memory of the eruption of Vesuvius on April 24, 79 A.D., and in celebration of the first day of classes here at BGSU for Fall Semester, here’s this.

Since this mostly dormant blog is mostly used for musical markers of the semesters passing: here’s Carl Orff’s Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi–the Latin lyrics with English translation.

And here’s an alternate English version.

Starting the middle of the academic year at the beginning of the calendar year always seems weird to me. But weird isn’t bad, so I’m getting ready to (as Ellison and Horace recommend) “begin in the middle and later learn the beginning. The end will take care of itself.”

The last tractor has been pulled (no, that’s not a euphemism), temperatures in the Great Black Swamp are slated to peak below 80º F today and it’s the first day of classes. On with the show!

P.S.

I said it elsewhere–I’ve been saying it everywhere–but: congratulations to Lou Anders on his well-deserved Hugo for Best Editor, Long Form.