The mom just put the Annie soundtrack on the turntable. First thing on it? "It's the hard-knock life for us. It's the hard-knock life for us. Steada treated we get tricked. Steada kisses we get kicked." Guess today's not the day to get the song out of my head.

Other strange ways to start the day: mom and Len found one of the texts I was looking at when I made my Gender and Sexuality syllabus. It had the word "sexual" in the title. They pretended to be worried bout it. I told them not to get anything on it. They complained that there were no pictures. I'm too young to hear this.