You said it!

It's May 2, here, part of the May 1 holiday weekend, so I'm sitting at the computer in my pjs, looking up books to read and thinking about emailing people. It's really nice to have a quiet weekend to relax and clean. Or think about cleaning. We had the sports meet earlier this week; I'll try to figure out how to upload videos and astonish all of you with the video of the foreign language department's dance for the opening ceremonies. (Yes - a university sports meet. Yes - each department does a "dance." Yes - there are extensive opening ceremonies. But that's another post.)

I'm listening to free and legit music on my google music player and thinking about breakfast. It's going to be a busy month, so I'm savoring this time. I just started reading Cities of God and found this quote in chapter one. I like the book already.

"Unfortunately, far too many historians these days don’t believe in evidence. They argue that since absolute truth must always elude the historian’s grasp, ‘evidence’ is inevitably nothing but a biased selection of suspect ‘facts.’ Worse yet, rather than dismissing the entire historical undertaking as impossible, these same people use their disdain for evidence as a license to propose all manner of politicized historical fantasies or appealing fictions on the grounds that these are just as ‘true’ as any other account. This is absurd nonsense. Reality exists and history actually occurs. The historian’s task is to try to discover as accurately as possible what took place. Of course, we can never possess absolute truth, but that still must be the ideal goal that directs historical scholarship. The search for truth and the advance of human knowledge are inseparable: comprehension and civilization are one."