Character Defect: Being More Interested in MY Learning

It's 4:10 in the morning, and I've been up since 1:00 AM being interested, something I so often am--so much more often than I am interesting.  In fact, I see that one of my character defects is that while I'm interested in my students' learning, I'm more interested in my own learning.  So this morning I was fascinated as I read a Mexican student's run on sentences about his interview on forbidden food as he shared what he knew about bees as a delicacy: 

I have had eaten insect that in the mayan language is called EK and I explained to her at this way, during a certain time of the year when honey bees goes crazy instead to produce honey they reproduce lazy bees out of the panel they like to create hive on thetrees and they feed those larvae with honey the hive get bigger more than a basketball ball and because my grand father used to said that the bee larvae is a very good source of protein we have to eat it, so to take the hive down we create a lot of smoke near by for the bees to fly away it has to be taken down during full moon why?  it remain a secret.  Just like the Mayan use to prepared, we toasted the larvae on top of the comal (where tortillas are cooked) with fire, ones is toasted, we chopped cilantro, red onion, red radishes, some lemon juice, salt and pepper mixed and on top of a tortilla rolled into a taco, it was so delicious crunchy and just like the finest meat in the world.

This was with an interviewee who had accepted his request for an intervew "right the way" and who, "been from the Hawaiian Island" knew about the fusion of Polynesian, Hawaiian, American, Japanese, Filipino, Chinese, korean, Portuguese and Puerto Rican influences.

Another student conducted her interview while giving her interviewee a manicure-pedicure.   Another went to her interviewee in Reno by way of Skype.  Walking for wellness....etc.

So even though I have an observation report to write up and three classes of midterm grades to calculate (which involves transferring notes on their phone message assignment to the proper form for two of those classes--52 people--and still more entries in Easy Grade Pro), I am here sharing something that interests me more than midterm grades.  Yet, I turned down an invitation from a friend whose partner couldn't go to a Jorge Dexler concert because I am house-bound and determined to finish this midterm madness.

But ow the question is this:  Where is the clipboard?  I have a clipboard so that even I can't manage to bury important papers, bt I managed to bury the clipboard.