the monday night lull...

...is good. Mondays are a fairly busy day for me. Sundays are a little hectic, at least this week because I had to read a book for Thursday before today so I could hand it off to another student to borrow because there weren't enough copies. Anyway, on Mondays I teach at 9:30am for an hour and 15 minutes and have my Naturalism and Pragmatism seminar from 2:30pm-5. Today both went very well I have to say. I'm really pleased with the seminar. Lots of participation today (none from me, but not because I couldn't) and Lisa gave a great lecture and John's presentation was really well done. Chris made some great connections between naturalism and pragmatism and I really feel pretty confident in my understanding of their relationship. My teaching was great, I ran out of time again today, which is always a good thing. I'd rather run out of time, making sure my students have a thorough understanding of the material, than go short.

The nice thing is I don't have anything until tomorrow at 4pm. It is Logic, but that's ok. I think that class is going to be quite good for me. Although I have to work on my qualifying paper for a while tomorrow. Anyway, Brian and Grant and I went to Upland for a couple pints and then stopped by Big Red for a couple more bottles. I picked up a Rogue Imperial Stout. But I'll get to that in a second.

Here is one of the reasons why I think Pennsylvania is arguably the best of the best craft beer regions in the US. It's mostly Eastern PA, and really mostly Southeastern PA, but still. PA has 60 different places you can get Real Ale, Cask Ale, traditional english pints. That is the most of any state in the Union. California is second, with 44. Washington state is third with 30. PA has twice the cask ale outlets that Washington does. Wow.



Well maybe it's a major metropolitan area (i.e. not Seattle) is what makes the difference? Well, New York state is fourth at 27. See the whole list here.

So that Rogue Impy Stout is bitter. Not as bitter as their Old Crustacean, but still stupidly bitter. But good stuff. I poured some over chocolate ice cream tonight and it was good.



Until next time, drink some really bitter beer, or at least a real ale,
Mattdunn