JUST HAD A GREAT MOMENT IN TEACHING: Nobody’s around today, so I went to lunch on my own with a draft student paper to read. (I don’t teach summer school, but I supervise students writing papers — gratis, I might add, since I don’t get paid to do any teaching in the summer.) But it’s worth it when, as today, the first draft is so good. I bragged on the paper, and the student, to the waitress.