this morning #973.

this morning, not even halfway through my lecture, i began to detect an audible quiver in my voice. i was convinced that everyone out in the audience could hear it too but i had to see this through. better to sound slightly silly & embarrass myself a little than to flee the stage & endanger my reputation. i realized this & don’t recall one thing i said after that. autopilot initiated. out-of-body experience experienced. i made it all the way to the end. people clapped. later in the day, as i milled around on a coffee break, a man i’d never met came up to me. he had a bunch of questions about my theories. critiques, really. as i listened to him, i learned that autopilot me had told a few fibs.