Back in black

I'm back from my travels and have so much to write about riding my bike, throwing rocks into the river, and my baby yelling. Instead, there are other priorities: I just got the schedule from the metaphor conference that I'm going to in less than three weeks, and the schedule says I'm presenting twice. Once on the thing I'm been preparing for the last two months, and once on a the topic of my potential PhD research which I had been rejected from the PhD workshop, but apparently was added as a regular paper presentation. I have, to be clear, done absolutely no research on this topic and will need to throw something together in the next couple of weeks.