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It’s flipping cold out!!!! Time to crank up the thermostat I think!

It’s my last week at my fall hospital placement. My placement went fine I guess but I didn’t really start to feel comfortable until this last rotation. Hopefully they are pleased with me overall. I don’t know how good my chances are to get a job there though when just last week the boss lady asked me what my name was. :/

(I have been told not to take that personally because she is bad with names, BUT STILL. Yikes for me.)

I had a good weekend. On Saturday I did homework and streamed the world cup skeleton races at Whistler on the TV at the same time. Then Scott and I went out for banh mi. It was delicious, I’ll post a review in another entry soon. We came home and Scott had to do work stuff until after midnight!!!

I was quite busy on Sunday. I got up early to make muffins and then take the bus to IKEA to get something for a Christmas present. Then I met Scott at Metrotown so we could pick out some winter boots.

Neither of us have any waterproof footwear so we decided to invest in a good pair of winter boots once and for all. Atmosphere was having a BOGO sale for Black Friday so that was good for us. We both chose North Face hiking boots. I love mine, they are so warm and cozy! Scott’s have wifi. I am glad to finally have the right type of footwear to wear to Whistler, last time I wore sneakers and had wet socks the entire weekend.

Anyway then I came home and had lunch and did more homework and made cookies and then made dinner (mac and cheese with butternut squash. caramelized onions, apples, and bacon AKA PRETTY MUCH THE BEST DINNER I KNOW HOW TO MAKE). We finished off the day with Amazing Race and then I went to bed at 9PM because I am a grandma I have to wake up at 5:30 AM for work.

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Well that’s me all caught up. Scott leaves for Australia in 5 days. Have I mentioned that Rosemarie is meeting him in Melbourne for a week??!! I soooo wish I could be there, but I’m really glad that she will get to meet some of my Aussie family. And Scott has orders to take her to all my favourite Melbourne places!

Scott will be gone pretty much the entire time that I have to be studying hardcore and writing lots of exams. Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing yet. I’d better go buy some frozen pizzas….

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We had our nerd convention scholarship awards ceremony this week. It was just a short ceremony with a photographer and some snacks. I thought it was cool though that a lot of the awards were given out by the person that started the award. Mine was from Brenda Clark, who used to teach at BCIT! She was lovely.

the whole nuclear medicine group

i look like a giant!

pls get me off this stage

The MC majorly messed up my part. First she called me Katarina Joma. Then she got the presenter name wrong. Then she got my name wrong. Finally on the 4th try she got everything right. The whole time we were just awkwardly standing on the stage. AH! Everyone laughed though. I was the only one she messed up!!

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So all week long there have been rumours about all sorts of strikes at school. Actually one union did go on strike one day but only in one building and we weren’t affected at all. I must have checked the BREAKING NEWS page on the BCIT website about 400 times in the last week. I just wanted ONE DAY OFF!! That’s all!!

Anyway they finally got organized and now they’re striking on Monday. AKA my first day back at clinical. WAHHHH.

BUT, apparently the hospitals had a strike vote today as well, so maybe I will get my one day off after all. We shall see.

Buying Fiji flights has been temporarily delayed until I find out if the strikes are going to mess with our schedules at all. Fingers crossed that the strikes don’t end up being very disruptive.

I JUST WANT THAT ONE DAY OFF!!!

In other news we went to the second hand sports store to get new snowboard bindings for Scott, and we also happened to find a helmet that actually fits Scott’s giant head for $50. Woot. I think he has all the gear now.

I’m off to Whistler again tomorrow morning for more skeleton. The mountain is actually opening tomorrow, but I’m not bringing my skis this time. I’d rather save my ski day for a day when more of the runs are open. I’m super pumped for skeleton of course though!!

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Well I didn’t spend the ENTIRE weekend sliding down ice tracks at 115 km/hr.

We also played board games (Wasabi), had a fire, watched lots of No Reservations, did homework (me only), etc etc. It was a very fun relaxing weekend.

Brian and Morgan just moved into their new place in Creekside and we were their first guests ever. :D I like their apartment. I would totally live there!!! Both of them still need jobs but they have lots of relevant experience so I don’t think they will have any trouble.

Whistler skiing is probably not opening for a couple more weeks. It was still verrrry green and wet when we were there.


I like that the lines on the carpet make Scott look speedy.

I’m back at school this week and next. Being at school is definitely much worse than being at clinical. Although I do appreciate being able to sleep in a bit.

Yes I did post that yesterday! I just love it. :D

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Oh yeah, I’m back from Whistler. I had an incredible time and I can’t wait to tell you about it and show you the pictures/videos, but I have one more test to get through this week before I have time to do that.

In the mean time, I thought this was a particularly good Toothpaste For Dinner comic from the other day:

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This semester is FLYING BY! I’ve already finished 2 out of 3 rotations, and that is great.

Epson is sending me some free ink because I called to complain about my printer saying it is empty even though I can hear ink sloshing around inside of the cartridges. The free ink is awesome, but the whole problem started because of the extreme crumpling action that the printer does every once and a while and that is not fixed at all. Blergh. I do not recommend Epson printers.

Our Halloween was very uneventful. We didn’t have any trick-or-treaters because we live in an apartment building. We didn’t carve a pumpkin this year. We didn’t dress up or go out. We didn’t even buy any Halloween candy!! WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE ANY CANDY AT WORK!! >:(

This weekend should be plenty exciting though. 6 hours of skeleton!!! I am extremely excited. I’m not sure how fast we’ll be able to go though because it’s still quite warm up at Whistler. So I might not break 100 km/hr this time, but I hopefully learn some new stuff, and after I’ve finished the “course” my options for skeleton are much better.

Wait!! Scott did carve a pumpkin this year. At work!! He won a prize! Actually that is a pretty epic hamburger pumpkin. I am super proud of him.