Thank you so much. Do everybody hear me well?

Yes.

Yes? Okay, I'm just going to be loud because there's no, there's no mic, and that's fine.

That works out very well. I'm also going to be totally tethered to the desk because I need to change this log,

and there's no access to the clicker there. But I'm so delighted to be here.

I can't see you through my reading glasses. I'm so delighted to be here I can't see you through my reading glasses I'm so

delighted to be here I have only been to Austin one time and it was almost exactly

ten years ago I think it was right after my sixth child was born I mean it was a brief visit

to see some colleagues and research and I just enjoyed the cities very much but it was just like a day

or two days so I don't know anything about the city and arriving at the airport today I thought

this is weird and then I thought this is cool and then I realized that's kind of like the thing

everybody thinks about Austin it's like weird and cool so um so that I just kind of made that note that the airport strikes one that way.

So I mean, super delightful to be here, and mostly the people I know in the faculty here are the few people you probably know them, they're Catholics.

So I know Mark McNaris is a good friend and a colleague in someone I've worked with, in the Department of Sociology,

and I know Rob Coonkin Philosophy, and Jay Joosefsky,

and that might be the sum total of faculty that I know here,

but I was super delighted to be here,

and thank you for hosting me.

So I'm also very grateful for that nice introduction,

and so maybe a brief note of apology.

This is one topic that I speak about that seems to have nothing to do with my academic

training.

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