Yeah, why? Something interesting happening?

Maybe, not that I’d know about it.  I was just wondering.

I had a vague idea of where you were, but that was all.

Ahhh ok.

So are you up to anything interesting?

I’m just working on some lectures I’ll be giving at one of the local universities.  Lots of fun.

Well, it could be depending on how you approach it. Whatcha giving lectures on (if you feel like discussing it?)

It’s a seminar on Warfare in the Modern World.  They’ve asked me to give a few lectures for it over the semester.

Oooh, sounds interesting, actually.

Have you just started working on them, or are they will in process?

I’ve sort of got a rough idea.  I’m not actually going to prepare a big long speech, word-for-word.  I just have to work out the ideas I’ll go over beforehand, though, to be sure that I don’t accidentally let slip some Top Secret military secret and end up getting the whole class arrested by the FBI.

That’s probably a good idea. Though it would be an interesting experiment in and of itself, to see how they would react.

Maybe I can pretend to build a thermonuclear device in the middle of class?  That might liven things up a bit.

“Nobody make any loud noises, okay?”