First day of work

My first day of work was sucessful! yipee :) 1:05 drive, so long, but not horrible. It looks like woodstock would be almost perfectly 30 minutes for both of us, so that will be perfect.

I was tired all day today. I couldn't stop yawning. I think I'll need to add caffeine back into my daily diet... at least until I get used to the commute.

Not going to post much since I need to get cracking on my thesis for the night. Need to get chapter 4 submitted to Neil again tonight, so I need to make sure that the second half of it is good (about 10 pages but will likely take me the full 3 hours before I go to bed!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good
I submitted my thesis to the Deans Office this moring

The Bad
It isn't actually done yet. My readers agreed to only have one week to review it rather than the three they are supposed to have - they signed off saying they got it today. in reality, they will have it by the end of next week.

The Ugly
I will have to do some last minute editing next week while I'm working 37.5 hours/week plus commuting another 10+ :.(. Meh, I'll get through it.

As much as I say I've wanted to hurry up and finish for the last year or so, I think I'm really going to miss UW when I'm done here. I keep on having these moments where something happens and I get all teary-eyed and nostalgic. Like last friday I went to the C&D at lunch time and there was a big sign out front "C&D will be be closed April 20th-May 1st." Yes. My last trip to the C&D. So sad. Then yesterday I was swimming at the PAC and halfway through my swim I realized that it would be the last time I will likely swim in that pool. (I know some of you hate it, but I very much prefer it to the Rec centre).

Then finally, the toughest one was this morning. I went to my very last waterloo goodlife spinning class. All the other clubs have stupid RPM classes which I hate (so not good for training) so I'll miss that, but more so, over the last 6 years, I've become friends with this instructor, going to her classes every week as the rule. She was fun and cheerful and made the classes go by quickly. I'll miss her. It kind of feels like the end of undergrad when we all got teary eyed that we wouldn't be together anymore, but at least we knew that we would see each other again, just not the same way or as frequently.

But... time for new beginnings. I start work on Monday, and my new life as Laura Jones, MASC, Junior Engineer is about to start!

LJs Revelation - April 17th

I love the word being.

The contaminant mass is being removed from the aquifer material.

Why the heck do I need being in there? I think I've deleted "being" from over 20 sentences over the last hour. Jeepers!

Wanna hear something crazy?

I was playing around on facebook the other day, and found out that someone from Engineering '04 is seeking the nomination to be the candidate for the provincial liberals (kitchener-waterloo) for this fall's election. He went on to become the FEDS VPEd... twice. Initals JH. Don't want to actually write his name down here, but isn't that crazy.

After all his rants in the Ironwarrior, I was sure that he was a conservative. Like 100% positive. I asked him once what his political leanings were but he didn't answer.

I passed?

Seriously, not much to say about it.

I went up to thunder bay this weekend though to visit Kate though which was nice. She had a friends daughter who is interested in Environmental engineering so we went over to talk to her for a bit which was kind of cool :)

Now I'm just trying to finish up my thesis. One chapter that really needs some serious work. I'm rewritting it as we speak (same content, just completly rewriting) and running some extra simulations on my laptop at the same time - Just things I know for sure, but the captain wants solid numbers backing it up, but they should be done in a few hours and I can just put the numbers in then. Pretty fun times.

Feels good to have the seminar out of the way so that now I just have to focus on getting this in and done.

Signed, unsealed, undelivered

My job offer that is. I am going to be starting work on April 30th, all I have to do is scan the offer and e-mail it to the office manager and HR person when I get home from school today. It feels kind of weird to be entering a new stage of my life and very uncharacteristically laissez faire about it. I didn't really actively search for a job, only doing things that fell into my lap and it seems to have worked out for me. I only applied to companies at the career fair last year and when Burger told me to send her my resume.

I'm so lazy.

My seminar is booked for tomorrow afternoon. EEEE! I'm sure it will be fine, but I'm starting to get a little nervous for it and am deligently putting together my presentation and practicing. In fact, unlike my normal self, I'm hardly procrastinating at all!

In other news, not sure if I posted before, but I have a draft of my thesis completely done and am working on my edits for the supervisor. Hopefully it won't take that many rounds for chapter 4, but I forsee myself being very busy next week!