Okay...I did kind of a bad thing just now. I submitted a paper proposal for a conference a couple months ago. I've been worrying about it ever since, and I just wrote to the organizers and pulled out. I don't want to go, I guess. Truthfully, it would be almost impossible to teach and go to the conference, but I bet Kirk would help out if I really wanted him to do so. I just don't want to go. I feel really guilty.