Just a bit of an update.
Yes, I'm still alive, been busy, though. The program I was working on is up and running, and I should be getting back most of the data by Monday. After that it's just postprocessing and writing up a report. Hopefully I'll be able to turn that report into a publication, not sure if that will work out, though. We'll see.
Life's been decent lately, there's a couple of German exchange students in my research group for this semester, and since we're all about the same age, we would hang out together and do stuff like traveling around, going to restaurants, the Oktoberfest (with German food and beer... and some badly pronounced German here and there...)
The end of semester is approaching, though, so I should become fairly busy very soon... I'll send another update later this week, hopefully =)