So endeth the classroom portion of our program. Please tune in tomorrow when I write the exam.
Just tidying up a few things before I head over to the bar for the traditional pre-exam pizza order. A some point tonight I suppose I should also review my notes or study or something. I’m not too worried. I was talking to my CEO today and he asked whether the exam would be tough or a slam dunk. It was then that I realized I’m sometimes too honest for my own good.
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Caught up on work. Responded to emails. Read news feeds, both work and non. Watched some baseball. Had dinner at Alice Fazooli’s. Cruised past my old Delano office. Had a beer with some friends in the bar. Cleaned up my Blackberry. Read my book. Investigated Twitter clients.
I’d say that I could get used to this, but…s’my last time coming up here.
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Easiest course ever. Not that I mind a light workload as my brain is clearly ready to turn out the lights on this whole program, but I kind of feel guilty. Shouldn’t I be learning a little more than this?
Whatever. To the bar!
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Last night I saw some Google hits on my blog with the keywords “js bonbons closed”, and just now Duarte sent me this link. So I guess that confirms it. The website has been replaced with the host’s default page too, so…fare thee well, sweet chocolate shop. I loved you very much.
The Chowhound page says they closed for family reasons. I wish Jenn Stone and her family the best with whatever they’re facing.
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Clearly, I will not be eating here this week. Lunch was Subway. Dinner tonight it looking to be Hero Burger. I expect this trend to hold up as long as things like “turkey cutlet” are the star attraction.
Today was a rough day for many people. I needed about 4 more hours of sleep than I got, so this morning I had coffee for the first time in fifteen years. It’s as disgusting as I remember, but the caffeine helped. I can tell I’m going to fall asleep around 9:00 tonight though.
At least it’s an easy week so far. Prof isn’t bad, lots of breaks, and so on.
[tags]mba, subway, hero burger[/tags]
Can’t talk. Tipsy.
It’s 1:24 and most of us just went to bed. This is, by far, the most silliness so late into the night we’ve experienced on any course.
There was streaking.
That is all.
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We watched two movies yesterday, neither of which was especially good:
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The Sporting Life 10k route ran past my building today. Around 8:30 I heard the Chariots of Fire theme song (seriously…on loudspeakers) and looked down to see all these runners streaming down Adelaide. I took a few pictures, which were awful; thankfully Nellie got out of bed and took some proper ones.
The shot below was taken straight down from the corner of our balcony, to the intersection of Church & Adelaide.
More pics at my flickr account.
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The Habs folded tonight, losing 4 games to 1 to Philadelphia, the 6th-ranked team. Philadelphia’s 18 skaters were no really better than Montreal’s 18 skaters (except for R.J. Umberger…that guy went all John Druce in this series) but Martin Biron was excellent and Carey Price was awful. Hard to lay too much blame at his feet; he’s 20 years old and was in his first playoffs, and he’s played an enormous amount of hockey in the last year, but in the end he let in three soft goals tonight and that was the difference.
It’s a weird feeling I have right now, something I haven’t felt since the early-90s…missed opportunity. For the last 15 years the Canadiens have only made the playoffs half the time, and when they do they usually just sneak in to the 7th or 8th spopt, so it’s a pleasant surprise if/when they win a round. This year, though, they finished first in the conference and drew just about the best possible opponents in both rounds…unfortunately, their goaltending disappeared in the second round, and the offense that ranked first in the regular season couldn’t find any consistency.
Big picture…the Canadiens were the youngest team to the make the playoffs, and they should only get better. I think a lot of young teams with big potential go through a rough ride in their first real playoff run; the question will be whether they can take the next big step and learn how to perform in the crunch. I guess I’ll have to wait eleven months to find out.
[tags]montreal canadiens, nhl playoffs[/tags]
Tomorrow I go away for the week, to attend the on-site portion of my second-to-last course. It’ll be my last one at our training facility, which has become something of a second home. With, you know, rather unpleasant food.
I won’t lie, I’m kind of looking forward to this one. Not because of the subject matter (though certain aspects of marketing do interest me…just not what we’ve covered in this course) but because it should be relaxing, and it’ll be shorter than most. And there’re some preliminary celebrations happening, so it should be a pretty light week.
My big worry now is getting sick. So far I’ve managed to avoid any colds or flu while I’m on course, but in the last couple of days Nellie has gotten full-on sick and I’m starting to get the sniffles. Oh, and the city is shutting down the DVP and some other roads I’d normally take out of the city. If I’m sick tomorrow in a cab crawling up Bayview or Don Mills, I might start rethinking my early outlook on the week.
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Skirl | Dan Dickinson 