Summer already?

It seems so strange that it is still light out and it's after 9pm. Even weirder that it's 24C. How did it get to be summer so early this year?

So first off - Congratulations go out to Heather, my old roomie. She submitted an abstract to a conference in Spain in hopes of doing a poster session and got picked for a full presentation! In case I haven't told you lately, damn girl, you are smart! I'm so proud of how you are doing! Heather was visiting for a couple of weeks and I had a great time. We went shopping, watched playoff hockey, played board games, played frisbee, went for a walk on Whyte and eventually ended up at Julio's. Yummy nachos. There are a couple of pics of her visit on the main page.

Next, congratulations go to mememememememe! I ran my first 5k race on Sunday. My goals were to run the whole way, which I did, and to do it in less than 35 mins, which I did. 34:50 to be precise. I placed 108 out of 285, and 22 out of 50 in my age/gender group. It was a lot of fun and I'm currently trying to decide if I want to sign up for another 5k at the end of the summer and concentrate on my speed or if I want to do a 10k and work on endurance. Hopefully, there will be pics from my race as well. Heather and Erin were at the finish line and Heather took some. There was also a pro photographer taking pics that haven't been posted yet.

It's been a couple of weeks since I posted so I'm trying to remember if there was anything else exciting. I attended a cool conference on May 6, but the topics were things like patient safety and cardiac markers. I had fun anyway. I sewed a present for my mum for Mother's Day/birthday but she hasn't seen it yet as she's been away on a trip. I'm reading a really fascinating history book about smallpox in the 1700s called The Speckled Monster. It's a great read, more like a novel than non-fiction.

Can't wait until this weekend as my sister is coming for a visit! I might actually blog again next week since I'll have something to write about :)