Lev Lafayette's journal

The subject title hints at what was a pretty interesting weekend. With regards to meetings there was my presentation to SoFiA on the topic "Is Moral Reasoning Innate of Learned?; plenty of discussion of course, and a video of the Zoom session is also available. The next meeting, the following day, was the Annual General Meeting of the Victorian Secular Lobby, Inc., where I have been president for over ten years. I've stepped down from that role and Andrew Rawling has taken it up, so it's a continuing organisation. I think we've done pretty well in getting our objectives achieved, although there are still a couple of big-ticket items to go.

A very lovely social occasion was a visit to The Rookery from Eddie, Robbie, Liana, and Nick for "linner", which developed further into the night, after animated conversation, into dance lesson instructions from Nick who knows a thing or two about such things, and a little bit of fencing instructions from myself, which is also a form of dancing. Actually, on that matter, it is a gap in my entry into proper society, right? I might be a scholar and gentleman, once who has toured to The Continent a few times, one who can ride a horse, shoot a pistol, and compose prose and poetry, but I have never learned to dance - well, not since school, anyway. So that is something I intend to change, and apparently, a smart thing to learn at my age.

Of course, I had to hit the books on the weekend, and I have again found myself on top of the Duolingo Diamond league after working through an unreasonable quantity of lessons on Sunday across French, Spanish, German, Esperanto, and Chinese. I actually topped the league a few weeks ago, and completely neglected to mention that. I rather wish that Duolingo had Thai as one of its courses as I find myself spending a bit of time on that language as well. As required of course there was also the need to put together a couple of thousand words for my final psych essay for the semester - almost done, except for the editing! How was your weekend?