Two brief items of minimal importance:

1.  I just got back from lunch to discover that, on the chalkboard hanging in the hallway, someone had written: "It's OK, Kant thinks you're a jerk too." This pleases me.

2.  Apparently, I get nervous for my friends who are about to have the senior orals.  By the time mine is a few hours away, I think I'll probably die of heart failure.