And we're back.

Apologies for not posting anything in the last few weeks. I’m about to start my last year of grad school and my evil overlords demand productivity the pressure is turning up quickly. Summer is the time everyone in academia covets: usually no teaching duties, the chance to travel, to collaborate, to get research done, to write papers. Since May, I’ve managed to get one paper published, just resubmitted another to the journal after the refereeing process completed, and made a good dent in a third project. The schedule has me graduating either next spring, or maybe pushing it off until August to make sure I’m gainfully employed next summer. Either way, the end is in sight.
Trying to keep up this blog is a challenge at times, with other demands on my time, but c’mon, it’s science…. and science is this fun, amazing thing. Who wouldn’t be excited about sharing? So to my readers, thanks for your patience and your interest in astronomy. Every day it gets more fascinating!