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Lately, it seems that I'm fairly harried. I've been teaching lately, and since it's the dreaded U word (undergrads!) there's homework and grading involved. It's a nice bit of income, and it hasn't gone as horrible as I've thought it would. Though I've had one or two problem students. But between everything, and writing grants, and dealing with three (count 'em, three) independent government agencies, it feels like I never get any work done. I did get one (2nd author) paper off to Proc.Ro.So., which for those of you in the know, is a big deal™, but I had to send in my edits while I as high on pain killers after some oral surgery. I advise against that. I've got a paper that's 99% to be sent to PLOS One, just as soon as I get outside review on it. Any population ecologists want to read over a molecular paper?
Between all this, I've not had much of a personal life. When I have some spare time I've been playing bits and pieces of a computer game. Hockey will slowly increase to fill that gap as the regular season grinds on. Right now the games just don't matter. Now that I'm back in the Goldstream valley, it'll be nice to pop over to the valley bar on the odd night. But things have been depressingly un-social. Yet another bunch of people I knew moved out of town while I was in the field; I guess that's the nature of a transient town like Fairbanks. I guess I need more career-professional-adult friends who have some stability to them. Where do you find those?
I actually like Google Plus more than facebook. But no one is on it. What's with that?