5-4-3-2-1 …

There are just five more lectures to go in (my segment of) this year's 1A logic course. Which means that — after, ye gods, forty years in this game — there are only five more lectures to go in my last ever intro logic lectures.

It has to be said: it does in a way feel rather strange. But will I really miss giving them? I suspect not. I have been rather enjoying this last trip around the block. But I've written up and elaborated the lectures in my Intro to Formal Logic a few years back, so I hardly think I'll be depriving the world if I don't give the live show again. And by the time I've spruced up the slideshow, strutted my stuff, and recovered from the excitement, that's two-and-a-bit hours out of my life for each lecture, and I've much more interesting logical things to do while I still have the energy.

So, short of major bribery, I think this will be the end. And just when I was beginning to get the hang of it too. But that's life …