Bad blogger!

Okay, okay.  I know I have so much catching up to do.  I've been busy.  And when I haven't been busy, I haven't wanted to write.  We'll see if I can do any catching up this summer.  By way of very quick recap:

• Nov:  Thanksgiving
• Dec:  ICIS in St. Louis, end of first semester.  One student hated me.  The rest kinda liked me.
• Jan:  HICSS in Kauai!  With the hubs and the bestie!  (omg I'm talking like a Valley girl.)  Yay!  Semester starts.  Work out!  6 whole weeks!  In a row!  Lose 10 pounds.
• Feb:  Submit two papers.  (One rejected, one still waiting...)  Have oral surgery.  Get sick.   Stop working out.  
• Mar:  Still sick.  Gain 7 pounds.  Go to Tucson for Spring Break.  Keynote speaker at a Women in Tech event in Silicon Valley.  News hits the SF Chronicle:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/25/prweb8236950.DTL
• Apr:  Starting to not be sick.  Semester - and first year at Pepperdine - ends.  I am in once piece.  Start working on other research that I had planned on finishing by now.  Rework my website: nicolefv.com.  (Suggestions/ proof reading always welcome.)
• May:  Pass my first year review.  Chair (lovingly) tells me I need a hobby.  (Does watching Bravo reality shows count?)  Work on three papers instead.  (Summer goal:  five papers submitted.  Let's call it a stretch goal.)  Feel research schizophrenic.  Join Twitter (kind of.  This could end badly.  @nicolefv)  Go to Europe!  (later today - for Pepperdine rah-rah-ing.)  First time overseas!  (this could end badly.  Or with lots of chocolate - we'll be in Switzerland and Germany.)

What have you guys been up to?  I feel like I've been under a rock.  I'm so out of the loop!