My blogs need more inventive titles. Any ideas?

So that everyone will know, these pictures are in reverse chronological order.

This is Zephne Larsen. She is sad because she has not put on her previous researcher's name properly on his box. Her sad face is supposedly saying "Sorry Joseph!!!" This past Thursday night Jessica and I plus one more friend went down to her lab to help her finish getting data for the spring research conference yesterday. A little last minute flurry ensued. We finally left with some crude initial data that looked not too horrible and left at 2:00 am. What fun! I personally presented at 9:30 am yesterday, and don't think that I did too bad!
Ducks! I found a bunch of ducks on the lawn outside to the JSB and they were all asleep, and I thought it was cool enough for not just one, but two pictures!

Jessica is taking a music class and needs to attend several concerts. She was also allowed to go to mass at the Cathedral of the Madeleine and count that if there was a live choir. So we went! The choir was very nice and I learned a lot. The bishop presided over the meeting. It just so happened that that day was also the day that they were going to place a time capsule in the corner of the cathedral. Here is a picture of the bishop putting the time capsule in the corner.
This is Jessica Morgan. She is resting on the wire mesh in the anechoic chamber. I took this picture because she kind of sorta not really looked like she was floating in the air. This was during one of our 5 minute breaks from homework. Homework and research basically govern our lives right now.
So we were doing optics in my Physics 245 class and for some reason, our batteries wouldn't work. So I pulled the batteries out to change them, and low and behold I found the reason that they weren't working.
Yep, the acid had leaked out. Not the prettiest thing that I've ever seen.

In addition to the dance that Jessica and I went to at her ward, my ward also hosted a party. It was called the Cinderella Ball, as those of us who don't have significant others would pick the shoe of one of the girls at the party beforehand, and then they would find out whose it was and they would become their dates. Interestingly, Alicia formerly Steagall and her husband Dan came as well. A little different for a singles ward, but hey, why not.
This was the first time that I had ever been in line for a test that reached out of the building and all the way to the JSB. The reason for it, however, was because of a printer problem, not excessively many tests.

Dance!

Recently Jessica's ward had a formal dinner and dance, and I got to go! We had a wonderful time, even if dancing isn't really what we did. We had a nice lasagna dinner, and then the dancing started. Being a single's ward, I get the feeling that they might have been straying from couple-dance music. The songs they played were really cool, but not for ballroom dance, which I have been practicing a little bit with Jessica. So we ditched the dance and found an unoccupied room and we read the rest of A Study in Scarlet, which we had been reading slowly at the time. Good book, and even better with good company. After we finished, we were going to go back to the dance, but the other couple in our group (Zephne and Chris), thought we had abandoned them, and were ready to go when they found us. So we decided to go as well. We went back to Chris's apartment and watched IQ. It was entertaining, especially now that I am mostly through my physics undergraduate classes. I think that Jessica and I found more things funny than the Chris's roommate and date, who were there also, because we knew that the physics they were referencing was really basic quantum mechanics, but puffed up to sound complicated.

Anyway, that was our dance night! Just like a high school prom they were taking pictures of the couples, and here are some that they took of us!

A day in the life of Michael

Well, life has been going well for me. School plus research plus temple plus girlfriend plus ward equals constantly busy. For example, yesterday I got up at 10:00, as I was somewhat sleep deprived, and I find Saturday and Sunday mornings to be ideal for catching up for the next week. I then took my roommate Andrew to the temple because he is also a temple worker and doesn't have a car. He often walks, but he was running late, so I drove him. It is good for me, as it gets me up and going. Then I went to campus and proceeded to work on my thermal physics homework until I needed to go to my ward service auction. A nice thing about working on homework is that Jessica, my girlfriend, has many of the same classes as me, so we get to work together. That makes me happy. :) Then we had our service auction, and that was nice. I left early (and didn't get to see my service, a Japanese dinner, get sold) because I heard my homework calling to be done before midnight. I didn't quite get it done, but I am really close with only a really easy problem left!

There you have it, a day in the life of Michael. In particular, a (somewhat typical) Saturday in the life of Michael.