Impressed Nods

      It seems one of my former students has just won the most valuable scholarship the increasingly self-parodying YU English Department has to offer. She's a bright kid-- and she was by far the most ambitious student from that year's particular group. So this news is good to hear, very good.  I may have to toast this.  

      And in similar news-- since he hasn't said it, I will-- RB, a former-student in everything but fact, got accepted to Grad School. He may come to rue this, but in the interim, congrats, good sir. May you do well and may you enjoy it.   (I kept expecting him to announce it, but since I'm happy for him and he hasn't said it aloud, like a bad parent, I'll do it for him.    ) Cheers.