This weekend while out shopping I stumbled upon some journals.  I needed some new journals to get the creative juices flowing again.  After my third semester of graduate school, when I had a class in the summer that took up a lot of time, my journal writing and creativity went into a downward spiral and I have been able to coax it out of hibernation for brief stints, but for the most part the grind of academic work and writing dwindled down an every day occurrence into a monthly occurrence.