Follow the Mome Raths

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Well it's been a long time since I last posted, but life has been VERY busy. I've been working...kind of...I did spend last week at the CSPG conference, learning about new developments in oil and gas, as well as attending the two days of learning about core. On Friday Angela and I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. My verdict? It was really great, although the werewolf was a little ridiculous looking as well as Wormtail, but I loved the way they portrayed dementors and the way they made it both darker and funnier. I felt much more in touch with all the characters this time. The new style took some getting used to but after "digesting" it I think I really like it. I hope Alfonso makes the rest of the movies! Of course, speaking of the movie Angela and I turned our apartment into a mad sweat-shop this past week frantically sewing up costumes, where she went to the premiere as a Gryffindor student, and I went as a student from Beauxbatons, from (my invented house) Mercure. I drafted a Beauxbatons logo which I embroidered on a robe I made, as well as inventing houses for the school. I fiugred most private schools have houses so Beauxbatons probably would as well. They are named after 4 crucial alchemical metals: Mercure, Or, Argent, and Plomb, aka Mercury, Gold, Silver, and Lead. The house colours respectively are purple/gold, green/gold, navy/grey, and burgundy/grey. The kids at the movie thought we were pretty cool, and there were about 5 other people dressed up as well, a couple kids and a couple adults.

Saturday we went to Prince's Island Park and lounged in the sun, and Sunday I did the MS SuperCities Walk, and I raised $105 in donations! The walk was pretty good, although I got soaked on the way home when it started to rain. One of the walking teams got dressed up after they finished, with four stormtroopers and Darth Vader. Their costumes were AMAZING, I think they must have rented them because they had the proper working lights, and Darth Vader's helmet made the hissing-breathing sound. We spent Monday watching the hockey game and Angela made gingerbread, which brings me to yesterday.

I was carrying a bottle of 10% HCl to use at the core lab on Thursday on the LRT home from work. Unbeknownest (side note: probably incorrect spelling) to me it began to leak and soaked through my backpack and into my shirt/pants. I therefore ended up with some rather nasty acid burns from the small of my back to my thighs, and I'm not supposed to sit - ergo I can't work for the next three days. In the ER Angela and I were discussing my luck with weird accidents, and here's some we came up with:

-broken my nose in a mosh pit
-had my head dashed against a cinder-block wall (more than once)
-broken my wrist 5-pin bowling
-cracked my ribs swing-dancing

I'm sure there's more but at the moment I'm having trouble coming up with them. Consider the fact that I've been in an ER 3 times in less than a month. Not the best track record. Oh well, I'll post some pictures of the guys in Star Wars costumes, as well as Ang and I in HP costumes. Laugh if you must.

Karlie@5:02 p.m.