Big ol update

Life is going well for me. I just finished up my second year of grad school for math. I've actually begun to really like it. I took some great classes from some great profs this year. I finally found an area of math that interests me enough to want to research. I found an AWESOME advisor. He's great and it's a project that I find really interesting. I'm just a bit burned out right now so I'm having trouble making myself do any work, btu it'll be ok. I can pull it together and find my motivation I hope. I only have to take one qual at the end of the summer which is nice. So I can relax a bit more this summer - research, qual studying, and maybe being a TA for a semester. It will be much calmer than last summer though I didn't hate last summer. Once I get in to the rhythm of the summer it's ok. I really don't mind studying all that much; in fact I kind of like it once I can get in the zone. It's neat to watch things click and to truly have a deep understanding of concepts. I wish I could feel that way on my research already. I get some of it, but some of it is why over my head. I think that's the way it's supposed to be with research though. You're not supposed to understand all of it at first, or maybe even ever. Pierre is super patient with me and doesn't seem to mind having to go over things several times if I'm having trouble. I really really lucked out with finding him to be my advisor. I usually trust fate, and again fate finally found me the right person. He's got a great personality that works well with mine. He gives me stuff to do but not too much. He has a good handle on how to work. I hope things continue to be just as great for the rest of my three years. Demetrio and Alina will be good assets as well, even if they are more intimidating, but they both seem very willing to help me and teach me. I know that Alina is a fabulous teacher so I just need to get over my bit of fear and let her help me. Demetrio really knows his crap on wavelets and so having him to help me will be SUPER useful. Hopefully I can be of some help to them, even if it's just in doing all the grunt work with matrices.
Outside of school, life is going alright. I'm a bit tired of being with the same people day in and day out. Hopefully I can branch out a bit somehow and make some more friends. We'll see how I go about doing that and if it works at all. Who knows? I have also been seriously thinking about moving to Europe after graduation. I think some people think I'm joking, but I think it would be a great time to do it. I won't have really much stuff that I would mind parting with or giving to Sarah. I can throw a fair amount of it into storage or ship it over the slow way. I can find a way to bring Penny with me because that would be the only deal breaker if I couldn't bring her. Plus, I'm hoping Pierre or Demetrio could hook me up with a job in Switzerland or France. Probs a better shot with Pierre since he's Swiss so he probably has collaborators over there. But Demetrio or Alina might. Never know. Yeah.

So that's where life stands right now. I should probably go do some research before the day is suddenly over again.