Email? Where did it go?

My birthday was Saturday and it was a great day. Erik and Jenna baked me a cake. First they went to the store and Jenna picked out the cake for Mommy and they both baked it. When they came back Jenna said "we also went to buy a present for Mommy". I said "really?? Where did you go?" She didn't know. Finally I stumbled upon Circuit City and asked her if I would be getting an MP3 player. Yes - that was it! And I can download books on tape from the library - score!! By the way, the cake was very good!

In other news:

1. I am way old and way out of touch. This semester I'm teaching during the day. Day students are significantly different from night students. For one thing, they are all fresh out of high school. As an assignment, I have them email me a file telling me about themselves. Several of them did not have email accounts/addresses. WHAT??? They were even mentioning that email is outdated and nobody uses it anymore. While I am intrigued by text messaging, twitter, and the like, I did not realize that this generation was so "textually active" as to abandon email. Maybe I'm out of the loop. Apparently I'm old. Too bad - the business world still uses it.
2. Sarah puts her hands over her ears whenever she eats. It is so cute I had to post it.
3. Jenna's ballet is beyond cute. You must watch videos here and here.
4. I'm now reading Michael Pollen's book "In Defense of Food" as well as 10 other ones. Hopefully I'll finish them all before the library summer reading program finishes.
5. I got 71 on quiddler today and made the word Daring. I love the ING combination!