Random Bullets While LG Is Showering (a 5-minute-post)

• On the technology:  I bought LG and I both Tracfone "smartphones," for which I have paid the minimum $20/3 months.   I've made it very clear it's not for long conversation.  Or real internet use. Just emergencies and WiFi on occasion.  It has not changed my world.  All it's done is prove to me how much I hate phones and the cultures surrounding phones.  You will never ever catch me checking my email on it.  But the Poetry Foundation has a cool app.
• I love love love my students this semester.  It's the kind of class that makes me think I might have the best job in the world.
• I'm reading Anne Marie Slaughter's book.  And other than the fact that it's completely heteronormative, I think it's super smart.
• I'm also reading Rebecca Solnit's The Faraway Nearby and, for class, Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus.
• I read Josh Davis's Two Awesome Hours yesterday (okay, read isn't the right verb) in less than two hours, and while much of what it had to say was completely obvious to me, I really like his point about decision points between tasks and making the conscious choice to tell yourself "I'm deciding to do X."
• I made the easiest ever chicken curry the other day.  And while it is far from authentic, it had the flavor profile I was going for and made me very happy.  LG has taken leftovers for lunch two days running.
• Oh yeah, and LG is taking the SAT next month because she wants to apply to a gifted program run out of my department.  She's not quite twelve.  How is this POSSIBLE?!

(time's up!)