The Now Page was invented by Derek Sivers in 2021. It’s a page on your website that tells people what you’re doing right now — what you’re working on, what you’re working towards, what you’re looking forward to, and what you’re enjoying.

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Now

Last updated on Saturday 2 March 2024.

Somehow I’m more than a month into Term I of my thirty-first year at Sydney Grammar School. I’m mostly having fun, but this is the point of the term where I need to make sure I don’t start to fall further behind…

Life

Still living in Stanmore with Calvin and the dogs. Getting about 7½ hours of sleep a night, going to the gym twice a week. Eating, sleeping, working, podcasting. The usual.

School

It’s our third year teaching Latin with Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata at Grammar, and our first year in decades without the Oxford Latin Course. I’m enjoying teaching the new course to Form I and Form III, particularly Form III, which is terra incognita: teaching material that I’ve never taught this way before. Fun and a bit exciting.

Apart from that, there’s Canvas, the school’s learning management system. I get to train people in its use and to find new ways of using it to provide students with helpful resources and feedback on their work.

Podcasting

Flight Through Entirety is taking a break right now, and so James and I are working on a new podcast called 500 Year Diary. James is scheduling and Cameron is composing, and we hope to start recording next week.

As for the other podcasts, Untitled Star Trek Project releases its 100th episode on 8 March, Startling Barbara Bain continues on a roughly monthly cadence, and The Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire will start again in May alongside Season 1 of the Ncuti Gatwa era of Doctor Who.

Websites

Last weekend, I went live with the new website for our Blakes 7 podcast Maximum Power. I’m pretty happy with it, particularly the way it showcases the many, many hilarious Blakes 7 gifs created by Pete Lambert.

Currently just thinking vaguely about the new website for 500 Year Diary, which will be going up in just a few weeks. I’ve done a few podcast sites now. I’m sure it will all be fine.

What I’m enjoying

I’m only watching stuff I’m podcasting about right now, but I’m looking forward to the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery, which starts next month. Take a look at the trailer: I think it’s going to be really fun.