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.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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I hope you are able to get your thesis edits back from your other reader, edits made, and handed in by Friday! You are so close to the end!!!! Then it's time to PARTY on Saturday!!!
Congratulations to your dad & Nora! And obviously congratulations to you too, but you already know that because I congratulated you in person and via email (1 of 100) yesterday. However, I did forget to kiss you. Oooops, be prepared on Saturday!
Wow! Lots of news in your post. Congrats on the half marathon! You are amazing. You've done so many races in your life.
That is great news about you graduating! What are your celebration plans?
Congratulations to your dad and Nora too! I completely understand the unlucky days. My mom is VERY into that. It is a Chinese thing.
Congrats to your Dad and Nora! A whole lot of people are getting married on July 7th of this year as it is the lucky day - 07/07/07 - and won't happen again. I'm glad they were able to book a venu for their reception that day. I think most places in Alberta have been booked for a couple years for that particular day! Craziness!
Hopefully all is going well with your thesis. You won't know what to do with all your spare time when it's done! ;)
Ya, it is crazy how many people are getting married that day! My mom and I are both going to weddings that day, but different ones!
07/07/07... it actually has nothing to do with the 7s that makes it lucky for my dad and nora (in the chinese tradition), it has to do with the chinese zodiac.
As for the reception place - it is at our house, so they didn't have to worry as much about booking stuff in advance - a friend is conducting the ceremony (it is the same man who did the funeral service for my mum) so all they really needed was the tent rental (the place has a bajillion tents)and the caterer.
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