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It’s that time again.  Next week is the last week of the quarter (already!).  On my agenda is a paper for the Study of Religion class, a take-home final for it, and an in-class final for Buddhism.  i’m pretty sure this is my first in-class final as a grad student.  Practically speaking, i’ll be finished a week from this coming Monday (i.e. the 20th) even though i still have that in-class final on Wednesday the 22nd.  In other news, i was “encouraged” (to say the least) to say around Denver for another year and wait to do my thesis.  So, i’m going to go for the dual-MA (again) so that i’m not wasting any time.  i have to add 8 books to my list to make 100, many which will be the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia series.  i am still thinking of 2-3 more books to complete the list…  i’ve got a lot of reading and coding to do between now and Dec 31 to fulfill my goals, but i think i’ll be able to do it.

1. Read for Buddhism class:
   • Buddhism in Practice by Donald Lopez
   • Buddhist Religions by Richard Robinson
   • The Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin
2. Read for Study of Religion class:
   • Globalized Islam by Olivier Roy
   • A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
3. Read for Thesis
   • The End of Modernity by Gianni Vattimo
   • The Adventure of Difference by Vattimo
   • Radical Orthodoxy and the Reformed Tradition by James K.A. Smith
   • Introducing Radical Orthodoxy by James K.A. Smith
   • Religion by Vattimo and Jacques Derrida
   • Weak Thoughts by Vattimo
   • Philosophy and Theology by John Caputo
   • The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
   • Dogmatics in Outline by Karl Barth
4. Read for “fun”
   • Phenomenology of Spirit by Georg Hegel
   • The Voyage of the Dawn Treadle by C.S. Lewis
   • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
   • The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
   • The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
   • Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysicsby Kant
   • De Anima by Aristotle
   • Categories by Aristotle
   • Physics by Aristotle
   • Metaphysics by Aristotle
   • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
   • Of Grammatology by Derrida
   • Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
   • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
5. Coding projects
   • Update impleri.net
   • New face for impleri.net
   • Update Zeal for Truth (both forums and frontend)
   • New face for ZfT
   • Advanced Messages for Categories Hierarchy
   • Advanced Logging for CH
   • Cash for CH
   • Reporting for CH
   • Drafts for CH