It's all good man, this semester will be a much more pleasant experience, it looks like. Oh yeah, and my poor girlfriend has just been left out to dry, I really wish I had more time to give. Grad school is such a fucking selfish thing. The list of people I should thank in my acknowledgements sections is ever growing.

I think ResearchGate has the potential to change the publishing process. There's some (very small) chance that a communal peer-review system could be instituted with limited success for up to as long as several months before the system destroys itself or is quietly bought out by whoever. Plus, right now, everyone's scientific contributions are condensed into one easy-to-remember number! Anyway, many of my coauthors are posting full-length uploads, figures and all, of articles that were just published in pay-to-access journals. If I'm remembering correctly, there's some kind of loophole that allows you to retain rights to the content before it's formatted into the way that it appears in the journal...?

I'm interested to know if you're leaning in the direction of a particular discipline yet.