It has been quite a while...

Dear people who used to read my blog. I am very sorry for not having kept it up for a long long time. I realize that I do have more time than I claim, since really, facebook and checking my email every hour is not that useful. I have decided that I will try harder to just post things on here instead. I don't have a lot of time at the moment, but I did write an email to my grandparents recently about what I have been doing this semester.
"I have been staying at an apartment since the first week of classes this "Spring" semester and it is a wonderful location. It is 1.5 miles from American University and 1.25 from where Amy is staying at Georgetown. It usually takes me about 15 minutes to get to classes in the mornings and about 5 to get back, since it is quite a bit down hill and I can really get flying. I have a nice head light and tail light for my bike and I ride it everywhere. This semester though, "everywhere" isn't quite as far as last semester.
As far as classes, I am taking Rings and Fields, a math group theory class, Complex Analysis, (another math class), Biophysics, Quantum Mechanics (by far my hardest class, averaging probably 15-20 hrs per week), and Chamber Singers. I am also doing research with a professor in the Physics department about finding coefficients for different representations of quantum harmonic oscillators. (Basically like imaginary springs that hold atoms and other things in place on the quantum scale). Then I am a teaching assistant for one of the lower level physics classes, which uses up my Friday's grading. Lastly I work at the front desk of the Physics and Computer Science departments.
Aside from that I am also a boyfriend.... Amy is doing well, but has a pretty difficult semester too. She is still doing her tutoring program, ASK (After School Kids), but is not a coordinator this semester, since it took up too much time. Amy and I are training for the "Tough Mudder" a really tough obstacle course that is 10-12 miles long, so we have been going to exercise classes at our respective campuses and have been running a good amount. This morning, we met and ran down along the river, past the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Memorial, along the reflecting pool, almost to the Washington Monument, and then up past the White House and back towards Georgetown, about 7 miles. It is so nice to be able to run down along the waterfront and to the national mall whenever we have time."
That was from this past Sunday. Anyway, that is all for now, but I will post things that I think were interesting or fun.
Oh yeah, 2 other awesome things that I am going to do this summer: 1) Go to Russia with my Chamber Singers group to tour around and sing. 2) Go to CERN the huge particle physics laboratory in Switzerland to do research.
My sisters and I are doing a no snacking challenge. Here is the last snack I had before we started the competition.