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**Downunder Kilt** · 19th September 10, 03:35 AM

Congratulations on the new post NewGuise. I would have like to have seen the faces on on your staff when you made your announcements. Will you be wearing the kilt regularly to work?

**Mike_Oettle** · 19th September 10, 04:39 AM

Congratulations, Garrett. Or should I say professor?
Keep up the kilting!
Regards,
Mike

**NewGuise** · 19th September 10, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Downunder Kilt

Will you be wearing the kilt regularly to work?

Yes, indeed.

Paul: one of the difficult things about taking on this job was having to hand my carefully-planned Macbeth course off to someone else. Such courses are normally offered only once, so I will likely never get the chance to teach it. But the guy teaching it now did get to see the production at the Globe!

On the other hand ... he doesn't own a kilt.

**CDNSushi** · 21st September 10, 07:56 AM

I can only say, that it's a pity we hadn't met when I was still attending the U of A. Perhaps that would have gotten me into wearing kilts ten years earlier than it did.

Either way, thanks for the update and welcome back.

**NewGuise** · 22nd September 10, 08:28 PM

As noted, I had to give up my Macbeth course this term. That meant also giving up the plan of wearing a Great Kilt in the MacBeth Modern tartan to class, in order to provoke discussion regarding what Shakespeare's contemporaries may or may not have known about Scotland and Scottish culture c.1605. So today I shipped that lovely length of tartan back to John at Keltoi, to be turned into a military box pleated kilt. My new Highland Cathedral kilt hasn't even arrived yet, and I'm already putting in new orders, which always seems to lead to my being talked into still other orders (more hose this time, and a tie). I have very nearly forgotten what life is like without jonesing for a Keltoi delivery...