The first week of portrait processing is over. Vintage portrait processing is the process of taking the portrait of every graduate student, post-graduate special student, graduate assistant, senior, junior, sophomore, and freshmen in the University. [Read more »]
After much study this afternoon—Plato, American legal history, sacramentalism in early Puritanism—and a phone call from Scott’s mother that encouraged him to get out more, Scott and I went to the social parlor. We played several games of ping-pong, though for me the primary entertainment was trying to hit the ball into the midst of dating couples. If their was no midst separating the couple (a thing that is not allowed here at BJU), I tried to hit them. I was moderately successful.
The ostensible purpose of our visit to the dating parlor was to play ping-pong; the real purpose was to find a girl for Scott. There were several girls who seemed to be pretty bad ping-pong players because their balls kept going out of bounds near him. I think they were really pretty but pretending to be bad so that they could get near Scott. He disagrees.
I even came up with a plan to introduce him to the hostess. In order to borrow the ping-pong equipment, one must have his ID card scanned by the hostess. I suggested that he attempt the following dialogue:
Scott: Hi. Could I have two ping-pong paddles please?
Hostess: Sure. Could I have your ID card please?
Scott: Here you go.
He hands her the id card. She scans it, noticing his name on the computer screen.
Hostess: You’re all set, Scott.
Scott: In a suave tone. You know my name now, so I find myself at a disadvantage. What’s your name, baby?
He wouldn’t go for it this week, but there’s always next Saturday.
For the class Ancient through Contemporary Rhetorical Theory I have to write one précis a week about a rhetorician. This week I’m writing about “Encomium on Helen” by Gorgias.
My friend Kellen has been asked to pray in the Sunday Morning Service on campus.
In unrelated news, Kellen and I went to BiLo tonight. We now have blueberry toaster pastries, cinammon toaster pastries, ramen, boil-in-a-bag rice, hot chocolate, tea, and two-thirds of a left-over pizza.” We are in “a good land and a large, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
The Backward Glance is the blog of Lincoln and Abby Mullen. Lincoln Mullen is a reference librarian at Bob Jones University's Mack Library and a student of history. Abby Mullen is a master's student in English at Bob Jones University. She teaches freshman English at BJU. [Read more »]
“Gorgias’s ‘Encomium on Helen’”
