Hem, Hem

I have an announcement to make.

My thesis has been submitted to the Grad studies office :D. Now they just have to tell me that the format is good and I can print. Wahoo!

I was planning on going to the gym tonight, but I don't feel like it. Perhaps I will go for a run or a bike when I get home. Or perhaps I will do both. We shall see.

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stuff

I'm busy these days sorry for my lack of updates.

Last weeks HAZWOPER training went well. It was pretty interesting since for years it has been drilled into my head that the most dangerous pathway to the receptor is often Water. Apparently that really isn't the case for most scenarios. Often the most dangerous is inhalation which I guess makes sense, but when you are talking about Joe public, they won't be exposed to the free phase contamination so inhalation comes secondary (unless they have soil gas vapour intrusion into their basement). For workers at a site though, proper respitory protection is apparently really important ;). I got to dress up like this one day (that isn't me inside, but I was wearing a similar suit. It was kind of cool.

On the weekend I did the missisauga half marathon (as you might have gathered from reading Burgers blog yesterday. Got another half marathon personal best, took > 1 minute off of my Chilly time and finally broke the 2 hr barrier. Crossed the finish line in 1:59:29.6 (the .6 matters ;)) even with requiring an emergency potty break after clenching my butt cheeks for 7 kms. Without the break, I probably would have taken around 3 minutes off of my time from March which makes me even happier.

This week it is back to stressing about my thesis. It is due for submission at the end of the day on Friday and I have yet to get my edits from one of my readers. The other one got me his edits today and the changes will probably take an hour or so. I will do those tonight. I have thursday and Friday off this week to ensure that I graduate this spring. I'll be mighty pissed off if I'm done and just don't have my thesis approved by GSO in time which everyones favourite graduate secretary is trying to scare me into believing will happen. I intend on hand delivering my signoff sheet between the offices to make sure it gets handled well.

So that is it. Hopefully things go smoothly on Thursday and Friday!

Edit (12:20) - Silly me, forgot to post about the other exciting thing from this weekend - Dad and Nora tied the knot! The reception isn't until July 7th, but the actual civil ceremony was Saturday afternoon. The difference in the day has to do with Chinese luck stuff. They had their "numbers" read and decided on July 7th, but found out afterwards, they had to have close family and friends numbers read too. The 7th is apparently an unlucky day for me (but isn't bad since I don't believe this stuff), but it was also an unlucky day for Nora's Sister in Law who has lots of friends who believe this stuff, so hence the day change.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work I go...

Two things quickly first.

1) printed off my thesis and had it bound for my readers yesterday which means I have no thesis related work that i have to do today :)

2) I have OSHA HAZWOPER training this week so today is the only day of the week that I have to drive to london. Woohoo! rest of the week will be in waterloo at training :)

It's 10:30, where are you?

Me, I'm at school. I was up at 6 am. Out of the house by 7:15. At work by 8:20 - worked all day. Lunch was spent working on my thesis. Left work at 5:10. Got to school at 6:30 and have been here ever since. Yipee. I have an exciting life.

My figures and tables are all fixed up, now I just have to worry about some specific things in the text. I might be here for a while though :(

Edited at 11:40 pm: just got home. So far this week I have:
- spent 10 hours driving back and forth to london and UW
- Worked 30 hours
- spent another 14.5 hours working on my thesis.

I've gotten < 7 hours sleep every night. My minimum will be tonight at 6 hours, my maximum was last night at 6.75.

Need to wind down now before going to bed. Worst part about driving at night. I wind myself up so that I don't fall asleep while driving, just makes it hard to fall asleep once I get home. I am VERY happy that tomorrow is Friday.