Still here!

I've gotten a few "Have you fallen off the face of the earth?" comments, so quick update:

J's family came in for Thanksgiving and even though J was on nights and so was only semi-conscious and even then only for a few hours, it was great for everyone to be together. Also over the holiday, J had a birthday- so in addition to the turkey and pie, there is an Italian Cream Cake here as well (it's his favorite and I make it every year- but now he's not home enough to eat enough of it! So it just lurks on the kitchen, along with enough leftovers to last us at least another week!)

I purposefully scheduled my writing so that I wouldn't have to focus on that when family was in town, so I could focus on them instead of on writing papers- this is good, but that means today is all about the paper writing :)

3 papers and I'm done, and they are shaping up nicely- around 60 pages and edited w/ footnotes.

I have a few posts I've been meaning to post:
Music Ecology
Tips on Writing Papers
Garden Update

So after I finish writing, I'll come back in fill in the gaps here...