I’ve held off writing this for a few reasons, but time is running out on me. Firstly, I enjoyed a summer holiday here in Australia, and did my best not to work. That was successful, but now it’s time for me to return from sun and sand and take up the digital pen again. Secondly, I was going to record this as a video but that will have to wait just a little longer.

Courses

This term I am definitely teaching the following courses:

Greek 101 (Athenaze chapters 1-8)

Greek 102 (Athenaze chapters 9-16)

Greek 103 (Athenaze chapters 17-24)

1 Corinthians

I have the capacity to teach some more classes, but I haven’t had the inspiration for other subjects or the interest from students, and so I am still on the fence, but if you had something that you really wanted to do, please let me know as it’s not too late for me to put something together and teach it. They would be at 7pm US Eastern time on Sundays or Tuesdays. I am also still determining whether I will offer something in an evening Australian time-slot. Again, if this interests you, please let me know! Knowing people would sign up for a course is a huge impetus to actually running one.

Writing

At the same time, I am not pushing myself to teach more and more, because I recognise there are limits on myself, and there are two areas I want to give more attention to in 2025. The first of these is writing. I can tell you that I have a Greek Novella that is so close to finished that I can smell it. I just have some final work on the indexing to go, and it should be available in the first quarter of this year.

Many people’s favourite question is to ask about my long-standing and somewhat stalled LGPSI project. This is one of the things I will be setting aside some more time for this year. I am thankfully quite robustly resilient to feeling undue pressure to get this done, because frankly I want to get it done as well as I possibly can.

More immediately, after this first Novella, I have some similar accessible short Greek writing projects to take up this year.

Video

The other new thing I have in mind for 2025 is to take up the challenge of producing video content. That’s a new area for me, it involves a learning curve in terms of every step of that process, and I expect it will suck before it’s good, but I’m determined to take those steps because I think we need more here and I think I have good things to contribute. If you’re at all in the communicate Greek ‘space’ online, then you’re aware as I am that there are a number (but a small number!) of people doing great work in this area. I’m very appreciative of them. I think there’s a space for a unique Seumas contribution too, and I’m looking forward to making it, and learning along the way.

That’s all for now: keep watching this space for more information throughout the year.