as calm as a fruit stand in new york and maybe as strange

SO in the last three months I got married, moved to New York City, started graduate school, and eaten about three thousand avocados. 

After reading relevant literature all day (which included a PubMed search for "human feces"- I'm studying colitis here) I re-discovered secondary structures like this:

which is a piece of this "tertiary structure":

FOR THE NON-SCIENTISTS:

"primary structure" is the RNA sequence (for example: AAAUUGGGGGCGCAU)

"secondary structure" is the way that the RNA can bind to itself to make the types of complex shapes as seen in the first photograph

"tertiary structure" is the way the ribozyme (RNA with the ability to perform tasks like "helping" other reactions just as enzymes usually do) folds in three dimensional space

in other words, I'm back and making work again.