Time for an update.

I've been woefully negligent of my blog lately. Not much going on to speak of. We (the supervisor and I) were hoping to have my thesis handed in on friday - that isn't happening). There is something that we aren't sure about, so I can't finish my modelling until we have it figured out. Unfortunately though, he'll be away for 2.5 weeks starting this weekend, so I'll be set back another 2.5 weeks. Oh well, I guess these things happen. On a brighter note though, 1 chapter is good to go, one appendix is really close (80% done, probably will be done next time I hand it in to him - he only wants the last page and a half). Supervisor is taking chapter 2, chapter 3 is getting close (Hoping this will be the last set of revisions on it), after that, only the modelling chapter (which I can't do until we sort this out) and conclusions are left. Yipee! It feels good to be getting close, although I am disappointed I won't be done before I go to BC.

This past weekend, we got down to Toronto to visit AFs mum and sister. It was good to see them again, though, I'm really missing my own family as well. I haven't seen any of them in around 2 months now, which is probably right on par with the longest I've ever gone without seeing them... probably the longest not seeing anyone. After my mum passed away, I made a good effort to see my dad once a month or so, but since meeting AF, that has fallen by the wayside. I saw new pictures of Eddie this morning, and he's getting so big! hard to believe he's that big and developed when I haven't seen him in 2 months. I'm going to take a few days off next week since my supervisor is gone and head down to visit with my dad and sister. I'm excited about getting to see them again.

Other than that, my training cycle is now complete. I'm running in the Chilly half marathon this weekend, hopefully it isn't so Chilly. I'm hoping to break my current personal best, we'll see how it goes. This week, I just get to sit back and relax with a couple of short runs. Should be a nice break :) By the time I get back up to this mileage again, it'll be much warmer, and hopefully the sidewalks will be clear of snow!

**Update**

My meeting with my supervisor had the best possible outcome. Basically, the reason why he was making so many edits and basically wanted to rewrite the chapter was because he sees a journal article coming out of it. He didn't fully understand what I was doing though, and wanted to meet so that he better understands what is going on. basically he is going to take what I have, and re-arrange and re-write it. He'll give it back to me, with minor changes that he wants me to make. He realizes that I am uber busy fixing all my other chapters (I have 2 on my desk right now) as well as writting the last chapter and analyzing my results) so he'll do as much as he can. Wahoo!

Okay, back to work. I hope to get him back one more of my chapters today, but I have to read it over a couple more times to make sure it all makes sense.

If I...

murder my supervisor can I still graduate. :(

He just gave me back some revisions on one of my chapters, and I have no clue what he wants me to do. his revisions on one single chapter will take the better part of a week and are completely different from the revisions he gave me last time. I'm meeting with him in an hour and a half, but right now every time I think about it, I start to cry. I do not want to cry in front of him. I'm bringing my last set of revisions with me, to show him that he is (IMO being unreasonable.)

My Response

Dude from Ground Water Modelling Company,

Sorry for getting back to you so late. I'm not done my masters yet, although I am getting close. I ran into some difficulties in the fall with my research that pushed me into the winter term. I am aiming to have my thesis submitted to the readers in a few weeks though, so I should be done by the end of March.

I haven't accepted a job offer yet, however, I think I am leaning more to the remediation side of things than modelling. Perhaps we could meet again to talk more on the job specifics and what you are looking for.

Thank-you for considering me.

Cheers,
Laura

I guess we'll have to wait an see. Perhaps I'll e-mail J.P. from burgers work tomorrow and see what is going on at that company.

What would you do?

So I have a question for ya'll. I had an interview with a company back in October (the good one) that I was supposed to get back to if I were interested closer to when I was going to be done. I.E. now. I think they would be a great company to work for, but I'm not sure if the work is for me. That said, it would be interesting... I'm just more interested in doing "dirty sites" right now than modelling "clean sites" (like for finding good sources for drinking water wells).

Since then I interviewed with burgers company last week and I'm still waiting to hear back from them. It would give me a greater opportunity to work with dirty sites, but I was interviewed by the wrong group (mostly the clean sites guys) so they were going to pass along my resume and put in a good word (they were impressed with me) but this all could take a while.

Well, this morning I got an e-mail from the guy I had my interview with back in October. He was wondering if I'm done yet and if I have accepted another job offer. I don't know what I should do I can probably put off e-mailing him back for a couple of hours, but I'll have to reply to him today.

What would you do? I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by being too picky right out of school.

In other news, AF and I booked ourselves plane tickets to BC last night! Yay! I'm so excited for my vacation. I spent all night last night looking up hotels in Whistler. Hopefully will be able to convince some people to come along with us to make it more affordable ($200+ / night on the weekend!) Otherwise we might go up for a night mid-week. We'll also be there for KB's 30th birthday which I'm super excited for. I miss that girl :(. So if QC or KB are reading this, I'll be in touch soon, but till then, I'll be out from March 12 to the 19ths :)

Stop the Harassment Already ;)

So, I guess I'm being harassed for an update. I can do that.

1) Pursuant to the discussion last week about anti-aging, I visited the clinique counter at the bay last week and got set up with a daily skin care regime. So far so good. However, since I didn't want to spend $54 on facial sunscreen I picked that up at Shoppers - the Neutrogena oil free stuff I've been using for years. I also picked up Neutrogena under eye cream which is good for fine lines, wrinkles and bangs. Under my eyes is my problem are for aging. Probably from years of squinting since I need glasses. So right now my regime is Neutrogena in the morning (I also have their acne wash), clinique in the evening. Seems to be going well, I have noticed a difference in my under eyes already.

2) Job interview. I think it went well, but I'm really not the best at picking up on these things (kind of like how I can't pick up flirtation from a guy). I sent them an e-mail yesterday thanking them for meeting with me, and I think the response was positive; he concluded his e-mail with "I was impressed with your depth and knowledge of your field and the manner in which you presented yourself". It didn't really feel much like an interview though. Just chatting about my research which wasn't hard. No stupid HR questions... "What would your friends say is your best trait?" or "Can you think of a time at work where you worked through a conflict with a co-worker? What did you do?" Those questions suck.

3) I met with my supervisor last week. We are aiming to have me finished and handed in by the end of February. Should be doable. Especially if I actually get my results done and handed into him so that he can get me my comments ;)

4) In case anyone is living in a hole, HP 7 release date was... released. July 21st, 07. Yipee!