Reveries and Passions
Sunday, January 16, 2005
more tomorrow than today | 1:59 PM |

Man alive, the past Christmas break gots to be the most productive one I've had thus far. Everyday was pretty much booked up spending time with friends and family. Though much of it wasn't heart to heart, or deep times of emotional and spiritual sharing...I felt that time spent with people is time well spent. Time IS still the best gift one could give another.
Highlights:

-Winter Conference
-Interview/Job offer
-Emily and Esther's B-day
-Japanese Buffet
-Demetres
-X-men legends
-Cooking breakfast
-UTSC
-Vaughn Mills
-and many more!

So that was my 3 weeks of break compressed in a nutshell. Now onto B-town:

I'm working in Burlington at the Canada Centre of Inland Waters (Wastewater Technology Centre building) and I do research with anaerobic digestors involving potatoe waste. What we basically do is try to figure out the optimal conditions and environmental niche for bacterias to produce the most amount of hydrogen, which in turn can be used for energy or misc activities.
Summary of my week:

Day 1
-watch WHMIS and safety video
-read articles
-pretend to look busy at my desk

Day 2
-tour of the facility
-cleaned out reactors
-looked busy reading articles at my desk

Day 3
-got parking pass
-sorted plastic tubings
-tried to fixed GC machine
-looked busy reading articles at my desk

Day 4
-got some forms that I haven't a clue how to fill out
-GC machine finally fixed
-sat around
-looked busy reading articles at my desk

Day 5
-watched some guy fix the pumps in the reactor
-went to Joe Dog's for lunch
-broke a pH electrode (which costs over 100 bux)
-spent the rest of the afternoon looking in the catalogue to buy another one
-looked busying reading articles at my desk


In between my busy schedule, I chatted it up with random people that walk by my room.

So there you have it, the life of a Science co-op student researching poo. Yummy.