So in the space of 24 hours, both my presentation at the Sanford Deep Underground Lab AND my keynote address at the MAA section meeting have been cancelled.
To no one in particular, I joked: “They say it’s the coronavirus, but I just think the universe just doesn’t want to listen to me talk anymore.”
At that very moment, my Burton Jones plaque — the award for which I was giving the keynote — literally fell to pieces right off my office wall.
HINT TAKEN, UNIVERSE.