Reacting to "Reacting"

So, I've not been posting because I've spent the last three days at Reacting to the Past, the Barnard-based pedagogical conference about, essentially, running roleplaying simulations of key historical moments as a class, usually as a replacement for a class in general education/Western Civ/World Civ/1st year frosh seminars.

It's been a wonderful experience, partially because of the chance to spend 4 days talking with 60 other professors of wildly different backgrounds, ages, and university backgrounds - ranging from a fellow classicist who's also a lesbian Congregationalist at Bates College in Maine to a male evolutionary geneticist and animal behaviorist at Montana State.

For right now, I'm just going to focus on the goods and bads of the first game I played, the ( Athens Game )

Still, a great couple of days. I'm happy to answer questions, and will talk about the China game tomorrow.

Also, Batman Begins rocks. and on Sunday, I got to purge my memories of a disliked and boring minister by parodying her sermon style in A's D&D game, where I play a priestess with 18 Wis, 16 Int, and 7 Cha. Rambling, irrelevant personal story and vague platitudes all the way, baby. :)