a sense of joy and then a panic

I had to lead that Hum conference. It went...interestingly. By which I mean that no one talked, and people did not understand what I was trying to say, and then we got on a tangent about American politics when the prof tried to convince me that Americans decided elections rationally based on who was the better candidate. On the other hand, a girl came up to me after class and said that was the first time she'd heard anthro used productively, and Nick liked my points and brought them up in his (next) conference, so people eventually understood me.