Doctors, Rust, and asebestos oh my!

So last weekend I went to the walk-in clinic. Like I thought, they don't do female exams, but the doc did write me the perscription I need and I start taking it as soon as I get my period (should be any day now). Hopefully my skin will be clear by the wedding. He also refered me to an ob/gyn so that I can get my exam.

So this weekend we got started on our basement renovations. The first thing we noticed was that our ducts in the downstains are rusted. For some reason, they ran them through the concrete below the slab, and water has got in and rusted out ducts. So all winter we have been literally heating the ground below our house. After much discussion, we are going to fill in the existing vents with concrete (with the exception of the bathroom, and then put in new vents off of the main bulkhead which runs through the ceiling in the den downstairs. hopefully this will result in lower heating bills and less humidity in the downstairs.

The second lovely thing we noticed after pulling up the carpet was old tiles. we pulled the nail strips up for about 90% of the area breaking several tiles before it occured to me that the tiles could contain asebestos. Apparently like 95% of tiles pre mid 80s contained asebestos. Nice. A and I have to talk about whether we want to test the tiles for asebestos or not. We can leave the tiles in place and just cover them up, but we will have to dispose of the dammaged tiles. Actually they recommend that if you have asebestos containing tiles that the best thing to do is cover them up so that they won't be dammaged. The asebestos in tiles is non-friable which means fibers won't be realeased unless they are damaged.

So all in all, I had a pretty stressful weekend, but it sounds like everything is sorted out and we can get to work on finishing the basement up.

Doctor Shortage

I’m so frustrated.

So there are no family doctors accepting new patients in Woodstock, so for the first time in my life I am without a family doctor. Go figures I actually need a family doctor too.

So I used to have pretty horrible acne. Back in first year it was the worst it had ever been. I ended up going on medication to get rid of the acne – Diane 35 which was a form of the pill that was actually prescribed for acne and not for the general purpose of the pill. When my dad retired I switched to another form of the pill that was supposed to help with acne. While I was on that I would get the occasional break out, but nothing too horrible. Nothing like it used to be. Well, now I no longer have a family doctor, so I can’t get a prescription, and my skin is getting horrible. In another month or so it will be back to where it was when I was 19 years old. Something I really don’t want. Particularly with our wedding coming up. Basically in order for it to be cleared up in time for our wedding, I need to get into see a doctor now, but I don’t see how that is even possible.

Um. Hello.

*Sigh*

Ah. Slowness.

The last month or so at work has been Go, go, go. Not so much fun. Most of my lunch hours I have worked through in an effort to get through the backlog of work. Well. Finally, as of right now, I don’t have anything majorly pressing that I have to take care of. Well, there are things, but everything I am waiting for someone else to send me information, review a report, etc. There is stuff I can do to keep myself busy as I still do have a backlog of work, but it all has deadlines well into the future. I think I will spend some time this afternoon clearing off the mess that is my desk. That would be good.

So what is new in the world of lj? Not much to be honest. I have just been working my but off for the last month. I have also been fighting a cold since Christmas which keeps on threatening to get worse, but so far hasn’t been that bad. I have a feeling that with my new found slowness at work, it will come charging on next week.

One exciting thing that I am starting to work on is a big remediation job here in London. The site is contaminated with chlorinated solvents and they are using soil mixing to lower the concentrations (dilution IS afterall the solution to pollution ;)) and then excavating the soil out. It is a pretty big job that is supposed to take until the end of May. My job is to conduct air monitoring to ensure worker safety (part time, not every day) and to go out there with a drill rig to take samples of the mixed soil for classification (haz vs. non-haz). Fun stuff. I wish it were an in situ job (ISCO anyone ;)) but the land belongs to the city of London and they don’t want anything in situ.

Any who. Not much else going on here. I will update my wedding blog as well for wedding related stuff.