Hi, all! No preliminaries today because I have to survive the “workshopping” of one of my papers in a little over an hour, and I need to drink coffee and fortify myself. (Philosophy paper “workshopping” is not like creative writing “workshopping,” at least if I’m right to imagine the latter as basically cordial: philosophy “workshopping” is a bloody and brutal ordeal, more a matter of objection-raising and attacking than “workshopping” proper, not that I would want it any other way. I do oppose the use of “workshop” as a verb, but I’m too frazzled to grasp at better phrases at the moment.)