this morning, checking my overnight emails, i was amazed to find that su-lin had sent me an amazon voucher ("for children's books!" she explained) which made me very ashamed of myself for being snide the day before about her fear of online shopping (or so i thought) and i humbly said to her, online, that she was a good su-lin, and that i didn't deserve an amazon voucher. you don't, she agreed immediately, but it's okay because "children's books are never undeserved, but a necessity!" noble woman! i will now go and get me the norton anthology of children's literature.