An 8-list

Here is what I call a great professor:

Me: >I am applying for a dissertation grant and I wondered if you would>write me a letter of recommendation?

Him: Of course!

Me: >If so, I will forward>all the info to you, including my narrative of my project.

Him: Got it, and printed it. Will read it tonight.

I especially like the part in our conversations when he says I was the smartest, hardest-working student in the class I took with him last year. He thought all education students were morons (he's in political science), so exceeding those expectations weren't so tough.

Favorite Trader Joe's product of the moment:
Instant Miso Soup - yum!

Strangest thing a student said to me today:
"We should really hang out sometime."

How the kid who told me to fuck off on Friday acted today:
Mega-good. I was all ready to have no tolerance at all, but he was on-task and compliant. I think our awesome campus supervisor (security guard) talked some sense into him - I saw them talking.

Number of administrators I think are morons at my school:
Two. How many are there? Yup, two.

What I'm going to do in the next half hour:
Write a paper

What I'd rather be doing:
The elliptical again! (Which makes sense from the next item)

Stupidest decision of the day:
Drinking that Starbucks on the break from class - I said decaf but I sense it wasn't.