Spell-specific hotkeys will come in the future, the number keys aren't working the way we'd like them to right now. They're kinda annoying because they can jump about...
Spoon as a small item might be something we could consider - you can bet it'll be something that gets talked about in the office over the next couple of days
There are generally still a lot of animations missing in the game at the moment - many of things we've got at the moment are placeholders that we crunched in for the E3 or GDC demos. We'll get to animations when the tilesets are all done.