Traci and I spent some time in Columbus with highschool friends Ben and Laura Williams this weekend. This is a photo of us in front of their house. We went to Columbus in order to meet Mike for Safecon, a flight school contest of sorts. Ben and Laura have a new addition to their family, James. He's a good one.

We drove home tonight after watching the latest episode of "The Office" with the Williams. I've got to get up tomorrow early to head up to Indy for the second week of my internship at INCAPS. I should have gone to bed because it's about midnight, but instead, I am watching "The Core" and putting something on the blog for the first time in almost a year. Go figure. I find this movie incredibly mediocre. Wait, scratch that, mediocre at best.

I am working at Indiana Center for Applied Protein Sciences this summer. We are a contract research organizaton. We do protein analysis and proteomics. Drug companies and other protein based researchers send us tissue samples and we can tell them the protein composition. The science of it is way over my head, but I get the gist of it. I work for the company in a marketing capacity.

The company is located in Indiana's incubator. It's a part of the Indiana University Research and Technology Corporation. The IURTC owns all of the intellectual property that is created at the University. It has the right to license the intellectual property to private companies. Some of those companies can qualify to spend time in the incubator where they enjoy reduced rent and other services aimed at helping start up companies. INCAPS is one of these companies. I'll spend my time this summer on a marketing project for this company.

I've only got about 5 minutes left on this movie. I sure hope our hero makes it out alive!!!

The Indiana trees bring the Indiana birds

Welcome to The Community

The Gundersen Estate

Some of our shady neighbors

These last three weeks have been busy, busy. We have moved into our new place. You can see a picture of it. It's in the beautiful upscale community of Shady Acres. We live right next to our friends the Reeds. Dan Reed is a friend from law school.

Business school is starting to own me. I have spent more time the last week studying than any other week in my life. I don't mind it, though. I really enjoy learning how to analyze companies. We look inside and find out what makes them tick. It's kind of an extension of the thoughts I was raised on.

People always ask me, "Why did you decide to study both law and business?", or "What do you want to do with that?", or "Why not just do law (or business)?" I have yet to come up with a concise, comprehensible answer to this question. I know why. I guess it's hard to articulate. I wonder if, "I want to rule the world, one day," would fly.

In the future I plan to do some more contrasting and comparing between the two programs. I find these differences interesting.

Well, I'm back in America. It's so good to be home. I missed my home and my family. I have been attending the Business School Orientation for the last few days.

It has been interesting already. We are organized into groups of four to five and we will be working together throughout the rest of the year. This is completely different from law school where each person is on their own. We have to be able to work together in order to succeed. It will be an education.

Stay tuned for more exciting B-school information.

A shot out our window

This place is called "Partymania." If you zoom in you will see that they offer an incredible variety of things, "Hats Banners Cards Balloons Lights Poppers - Table Bombs Make-Up Candles Fancy Dress Hire (new line) Boas Wigs Toys Gift Wrap Ribbons Pinatas Masks Disguises Etc. Etc. Helium Decorations"

Main Entryway

Lovely Bathroom

This room is not as nice as it looks

It's Sunday night. We are leaving England tomorrow morning and we can't wait. It's been too long away from home. We have been able to stay with some friends in the program, so we didn't have to get a hostel. The state of this place re-iterates what a great job Bryan did in finding us the place that we stayed in.

In fairness, it's much closer to school and it cost them a little less. However, I am very happy with the place that we lived in. I spoke with our landlord a little about this. He is an Indian-Brit and a physician (general practitioner). He is a very nice and intelligent man. I really have enjoyed talking with him the few times that I had the chance. I told him that of all the students in our program, we had the best accomodations. He said, "Our American cousins have come to expect high standards, and that is what we give them."

Finals went as expected. They were reasonable and since we are recieving pass/fail instead of a letter grade, we didn't have to strain ourselves studying. The professors and the students here have been very fun to get to know. It has been a great experience.

We watched the finale of big brother, Eugene did not win, however, he came in second and it was a close match. I was proud of Britain for that. He did, however, win just as much as did Anthony, demonstrating that, sometimes, nice guys don't finish last. They finish second.

It has been a great trip, but I miss my wife and I am happy to return home.

Well it's the last day of class, so in Products Liability we took some pictures. This is everyone but Geoff (the Canadian who is studying law in England). The kid on the top left is who we fondly refer to as Mormon Matt. He is the other LDS student here, Alberto, the Italiano, Maximillian, German, Nikita, Russian. I am kneeling down next to Genny. She's a USD student.

Today I got up late because Bryan, Chris, and I had a late leg workout. I always get worked up during a workout so it took me a while to calm down. We were up til 2:30 watching movies. As it was Saturday, I didn't really have much to do, so I took the bike down the dirt path. It was a nice ride.

My legs were pretty tired from the night before, so I took it real easy. I rode about 3 miles down the path. It follows the river for a while, then branches off and follows the rail tracks. I ended up at the "Stanford Lock." I'm not sure what the purpose of this place is, but I took some pictures and headed back.

The weather was perfect. It has been overcast for the last week and so the temperature is like 73 degrees. It is a little chilly if you are standing around, but it's perfect if you are on a bike. The Oxford folk were out in droves, punting, boating, and fishing.

This is one of the rooms that we take classes in. They seem to have put us in some of the ugliest rooms at Christ Church. In this picture you see a couple of Americans, a German, and a Russian. we take EU law from Professor Craig in here.


This morning I took my sweet time getting to school. I woke up early, so I had plenty of time to dilly dally. I took this picture of the river because the fog hadn't burned off yet. You may be able to see the rowers in the background.

When we first arrived in London, it was cold and rainy, completely fulfilling our expectations of English weather. However, once we got into Oxford and rented some bikes, it got sunny and hot. Because we only had our bikes to get us around, the heat was a nuisance. I was beginning to feel that I had been lied to. (The media always portrays England as rainy.) However, this last week, it has cooled off again and we have had some more rain. This was a welcome distraction from the sun and has made riding around on bikes ideal.