Home

I made it home from school. Packing was not exactly a success; I'd been trying to get it all done, but come Sunday morning, stuff was still everywhere. With the most kind assistance of Megan, soror mea, Kirsten (who was trying to check me out of the dorm before she missed church), and Judah, everything got put away, clean, and to the storage unit.

We printed directions--Judah drove us to BWI (thank you!)--we were in plenty of time for the flight--and home we went.

So now I'm in the process of readjusting to New Mexico. It's incredibly green. My hair doesn't know what to do without humidity!

I am less than thrilled with contemporary philosophy, particularly as exemplified by Episode One, which I just rewatched. Dude. It is an impressively bad film with a budget far too high for its own good. It mindlessly lauds peace and justice while the Jedi and Queen break laws and do silly things up one side and down the other. There's a verging-on-blasphemous virgin birth by the Force and Anakin as some kind of perverted Christ figure. The race scene is about five times as long as would be cinematically effective. Meanwhile, inept droids get blown up. As I recall, Episode Two was worse because it had all the philosophical problems plus a poorly designed and executed "love" story. I can only hope Episode Three is better; just now I'm unconvinced. If George Lucas hasn't got the worldview for true movies, he hasn't got it, and that's about all there is to it, unless God is merciful and he hits something good by accident.

I'm unpacked. I have been reading Dante. I was driven to it by Episode One, though I was in the middle of it anyway. I have also been reading Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers on heresy and orthodoxy, "Fellowship of the Ring" for my discussion group, and grammars of Old English. My wonderful mother bought me another of the latter from a used book store. :-)