Getting closer... I should be working on my talk for the International Temperate Reefs conference, or at least polishing up on of my manuscripts, but instead I'm puttering with this. But- this may not be all bad. I have high hopes for using this blog to keep up with my far flung family and these damned friends of mine who keep moving away.

This, this moving away is one of the larger problems with being a graduate student. The constant shared stress makes for intense friendships, and this community of people I've been living in for the past... um... eight-plus years is incredibly wonderful. Incredibly wonderful and inherently temporary. It's a dandelion community, and now we'rdefending, and people are taking to the wind. Dammit. However, it's also a community with a heroin-like attatchment to the internet. So... maybe the weblog is a good thing...

In other news, it's finally spring on the central coast, and I've been able to bundle up the bairn and the pooch and do some hiking to check out the bloom. That's never bad. The picture above is from Sobranes, just North of Big Sur.

Oops, the bairn awakes...