Had a long day
today – discussed an assignment with my 503 instructor (“discussed”
might not be the best word to use but I'm trying to be polite), met
with the Acting Associate Dean to discuss an upcoming speaker in our
speaker series and also to get approval to do an Individual Study
project as one of my summer courses (yay me!), rehearsed our 503
presentation with my group members a couple times, trudged up to the
Business Library to get some books for the show & tell portion of
our presentation (we presented on “Business & Current Events
Sources” – exciting stuff!), did the presentation which went fairly
well I think.
The group before us were the first group to go without the crutch of a
Powerpoint presentation and I can't tell you how awesome that is in my
opinion. This whole program, hell 99% of University programs and
workplaces teach us to rely on PowerPoint way
too much in my opinion. I'm still looking for an opportunity to
do a PowerPoint presentation on “Why PowerPoint Sucks”. Maybe in
506 – Management next semester. Our group did use PowerPoint (I
briefly tried to convince them not to but not too hard – I like it as a
crutch too! Where else can you put stupid caveman graphics and
get a cheap laugh? Or dazzling swirling effects on your
text? Or the luminous colour combination of yellow text on white
background?) and our presentation went fairly well.
Our group activity – a Jeopardy game at the end – was a hit and
the instructor even gave us permission to go long even though she's
usually pretty strict about keeping groups to their 30 minute time
limit. Took the books back to the Business Library, go for a beer
(and a great visit) with one of my presentation teammates who I don't
know really well. Walk home, try to nap but can't fall
asleep. Go back to school to drop off some overdue books (Jill, I
agree with your comment that “I consider my library fines as a
voluntary kind of user fees”) then go downtown to pick up some LPL
holds. Go for supper at the infamous Poacher's Arms (it's the
first place I really went drinking with David, Mike and Melissa in I
think week two of the program on a Sunday afternoon immediately after
we'd gone for brunch!) then bus home and now am just trying to catch
up, as always, with the non-stop barrage of e-mail I get every day (I
bring a lot of it on myself – firing off missives all over the place to
everybody I know.)
Speaking of e-mail, David Jackson gets the ripe honour of being Classmate of the Day
(I need a term for when I give it to people who aren't actually my
classmates but are in the program with me. Actually who cares, if
you read this and know someone's not a direct classmate, you'll know
what I mean. And if not, it doesn't matter anyhow.) So
yeah, Dave gets it for being the only person I know who regularly reads
this blog so far (Jill, you still checking in or did I bore you
yet? Jenn? Mom???), who regularly posts comments as well as
for the hilarious but deadly earnest e-mail he sent me at 9am this
morning, written to the tune of “Looking For Love In All The Wrong
Places”.
(By the way David, I saw Greg at the Poacher's Arms tonight as we were
leaving and Shea had to physically restrain me from turning around and
going back in!)
Next time…
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