I've recently been reminded of my serious lack of blog involvement. I aim to remedy this over the next 9 months. I'm listening to Modest Mouse on my friend's blog: Potus and ready to pass along some updates.

First, I passed all my classes - hoorah! Which classes, you might ask?
Communication Systems
U.S. History
Historiography
VLSI Design
Abstract Algebra (audit)

I watched many of my good friends graduate and will miss over the coming years. In the picture above, Hiroshi, Chuck, and David (all on the left) finished this year. I've got one more year to go before I can get my slip of paper and move on. After watching graduation, I'm really quite excited about getting there myself...

Shortly after grad, I moved up to Washington State University for a math research position. It appears my research will involve flat norms, topological currents, submanifolds, and rectifiable surfaces. I'll admit I don't have a clue what's going on yet. I am a bit overwhelmed - by the research goals and by the size of WSU.

I'm living in a quaint little apartment with a nice couple in their 20's. They have an awesome colony of show rats with quirks and personalities. Probably 25 rats. I'll put up some pictures eventually. I'm using a new laptop that I bought for the research job - a nice small Dell with the power needed for number crunching. I'm living about 2 miles from my office in the math department which makes for a nice bike ride twice a day.

Mum is in Costa Rica at the moment and blogging quite nicely at the Musings. Michelle and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary in March and she's staying busy at work. She's planning on visiting me at WSU on her free weekends which is fantastic! (I would visit her, but I've got no car). We recently got her hooked up with a modest home theater setup which I'll post pictures of eventually.

That covers some of the recent news and plans for the summer. More soon!