Elena Kagan: Next Supreme Court Justice?

That's the current wisdom. I like it. I especially like three contrariennes on the court at once (Ginsberg would presumably wait to resign until later).
I'm currently reading Carolyn Heilbrun's book about life after 60. She was a willful woman who decided to take her own life at 70 because that made sense, but ended up writing the book instead. She took her own life in 2003 at 78, same basic reasoning — I will decide when I go — and it strikes me that she missed a helluva lot of of excitement.
Heilbrun struggled on the English faculty at Columbia and was bitter about it. She so far does not seem to have the perspective of the long view, so far making no mention of how far things have come. Elena Kagan, Carolyn, Sonia Sotomayer. Hillary is Secretary of State. We elected a black president and he's damned impressive.
Carolyn opted out the same year we invaded Iraq. Stopped in time. Forever.
I am heartened, though, that she gave up wearing skirts and panty hose at about the same age I did, and for the same reasons.