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I am now a doctor!
Six years and eight months ago, I arrived in Saskatoon thinking that this was going to be home for the next 3 years. Eight months later, I suddenly found myself signing up for an additional 2 years. Five years went by without me even really noticing it and then I was "almost done" for an entire year. Today, it finally ended ( Read more... ) -
I feel like I performed surgery today
After my amazingly fun and wonderful (although slightly cold) trip to Seattle, I came home to a flooding basement. The water was spraying from up at the ceiling so basically, a lot of stuff got wet. Thankfully, the water did go down a drain, it was near a wall, and the electricity didn't get affected. How the electricity didn't get affected was a ( Read more... ) -
Re-immersing myself into the coding world
It's been quite some time since I've done any coding. After graduating in 2006, I did a bit of coding in my classes, but not a lot. After all, it's more about reading and writing than actual coding. Once classes were done, I spent probably about 2 years of just reading and writing ( Read more... ) -
What a haul (at the garage sale)!
I really love garage and yard sales. People have such interesting things they want to get rid of. There are places online like Kijiji and Craigslist that makes the items a bit more accessible to find and buy but it takes the fun out of going to a garage sale ( Read more... ) -
Trip to Kyoto
A few weeks ago, I went to Kyoto for a business trip. A week of meetings where I really only needed to be there for approximately the morning of each day. It's supposed to be a full day every day, so I guess I was lucky that it turned out I got a lot of time for sight seeing. I went to Kyoto in my previous trip to Japan so I really didn't have that ( Read more... ) -
5 years ago...
5 years ago, on this very day, my bestest and closest friends got together to celebrate our 5 year journey known as undergrad where we were guinea pigs with so much power that we managed to remove a course from curriculum and had courses created JUST for us. 5 years of school, then work, then back to school. 5 years of late nights, road trips, and ( Read more... ) -
Would you be there when I cry?
I've been on a Hong Kong TV kick for the last week and found a pretty good show. I can't type Chinese but the English name is "Be Home For Dinner". In one of the episodes, they had a pretty sentimental "moral" to the story ( Read more... ) -
A new obsession has begun
What have I got myself into? hahaha. I am so obsessed with making crafty and working with my hands. First, it was origami, then friendship bracelets, then paper models, and now, chain mail! hehehe.
Today, I took a class on making chain mail jewellery at Metal Designz. We made a specific style of bracelet today and it was so wonderful to work with ( Read more... ) -
It's in me to give, but I'm not allowed
I've been thinking about donating blood for a few years. I've seriously considered it ever since I found out my blood type about 4 years ago. But every time that the blood clinic was on campus, I was down with a cold or the appointments were full. So, I've never done it ( Read more... ) -
"Aren't you done yet?"
What a very common and frequent question I get. "Aren't you done yet?" "When are you done?" "You've been there forever!" I can imagine that it really does seem like a LONG time for those of you who are working and have change jobs a few times already. But really, people, it's only been 5 years since we graduated! 5 years for a PhD is not that long ( Read more... )