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# 2015, State of the Projects
- URL: https://thepatrologist.com/2015-state-of-the-projects/
- Published: 2015-01-07T10:01:11.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-07T10:01:11.000Z
- Author: Seumas Macdonald
- Tags: Updates, #Migrated-1784156034836, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 22:54

And we're back...

I thought I better get back into the blogging saddle before too much of this year sailed by. I hope you all had an enjoyable break. Christmas and New Year fall in summer here in the southern hemisphere, so there is a lot of swimming going on.

**PhD**

As of Jan 1st my student status switched from part-time to full-time, so this is where most of my attentions will be from now on. There will no doubt be the war of staying-on-focus vs. beautifully tempting side-projects. I've picked up a desk at the uni and will be sitting at it for long stretches of time.

**Teaching**

This week and next I'm taking an Advanced Koine group at the Macquarie Ancient Languages School, we're reading through the Martydom accounts of Polycarp and of Perpetua and Felicity. A great benefit of reading through these texts with others is that they have lots of questions I don't know the answer to because I didn't think about it! So I'm making a lot more notes.

**Patristic Readers**

I'm still making slow progress forward on the 2nd reader; I will also be updating and revising the 1st reader. I am noticing quite a few things that can be improved as my class works through it, and there are some formatting issues with repeated text that are a real shame (that they got through my system, I guess even digital scribes make textual errors).

**Audio / Visual**

I have some more raw footage to edit and post, but it's always so time consuming. It's more WAYK Greek. Then we might see about some Latin too this month.

**Tutoring**

If you're one of my students, individual sessions should start again next week. As far as classes go, it looks like online Patristic Greek will go ahead for certain, just a matter of timing, and still exploring other options. If you're Sydney based and have an afternoon free, I might try and do a small group on campus at Macquarie as well.

It's going to be an exciting and great year, I can tell you. And this is the place to be for all your Greek, Latin, Patristic related rants and not-quite-rants.