Been a while...
Meant to make an entry this morning, but it just didn't work out that way.
Item the First: Noises have been made about my little girl being advanced. Particularly because she apparently attempts to talk back to the daycare ladies. I have a different theory. Early on in being a father, I decided that I'd skip babbling in nonsense syllables at my daughter, and talk to her exactly as if she could understand me. I've MOSTLY kept to this (I indulge that stupid babbling instinct on occasion). Therefore my theory is that she is learning to talk quickly because it's the only way she can get her Daddy to shut up.
Item the Second: I had a moment this morning at the Post Office. A few years ago (hell, more than a few at this point), I was still working toward my PhD, and to fulfill my teaching requirement to Rice, I was grading for a class on remote. They'd DHL the papers to me, and I'd work hard to quickly grade them and express mail them back.
Fast forward to today: I'm express-mailing the letters that I've signed for the job offer as a professor of physics at Florida State.