Where did February go?

Wow--this is my first post since January 16th. I knew I hadn't blogged anything in a few weeks, but I wouldn't have guessed that it had been that long.

Dissertation work, various bear data tasks, two conference papers and a third abstract, developing a course in informatics for infectious disease, presenting at two meetings of our local Massage Journal Club, a death in the (extended) family, invitation to and preparation for a talk in Michigan, and taking my Philadelphia landlady (LL) around town while she was visiting--it's been a total blur for the last two months.

At least I've been doing a lot of writing, if not blogging: I got some very good advice, from someone I really respect, to make writing for publication as regular a habit as working out (ok, that's 2 habits to work on now :P), and I can see that it's paying off. Now let's see if I can develop a balance among different kinds of writing, where I don't neglect my blog for weeks on end.