Two long months

It has been a while since I even thought about blogs.  I haven't read any of the usual suspects or taken the time to update my own.  No surprise, I've been unnaturally busy with school and research.  Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this silliness, and then I think about my own search for blogs about graduate school and life in science.  The search for commonality, understanding, explanations, and the deep need to speak without consequence or justification.  

I guess I can sum up my two months of absence very simply: Life, sometimes it's unbelievingly awesome and other times it sucks so hard you can't take it.  The more joy you can find in the good days, the easier it is to get through the bad.