Whew. I’m glad that’s over. We did the presentations this afternoon, and it went pretty well. 8 of us played some basketball after that, so now I feel great! All that remains now is…the exam. I plan to eat my pizza (Russ and I couldn’t bear the thought of any more cafeteria food), study for a couple of hours, hit the bar for a few drinks, then come back here and get my shit together so that I can take off out of here tomorrow in a right quick hurry.

In the home stretch now. Finalizing the powerpoint file and document, getting ready to run through the presentation for the first time. By dinnertime tomorrow I’ll feel like I’m in the home stretch, even though I’ll still have the exam to study for. Not worried about that though.

Watch, now I’ll go and fail…

Funeral is saving my sanity right now. Not enough sleep, too much writing about something I don’t know, too little space in rooms with too many people. Only this disc and my headphones are keeping me from going right ’round the bend. God bless those boys (and that girl).

Oy. It’s 12:30, and I’ve just finished writing for the night. We started at 7 and went to 11:30 before I came back to my room and wrote for another hour. On Thursday we have to hand in a 10-12 page report and present a 20-minute synopsis of that report. Right now I’d say the powerpoint slides are about 70% done, the document is about 50% done and we haven’t even thought about how we’re going to present it. We have tomorrow evening to figure all that out.

Hooray, group assignments!!

3 days down, 2 to go. Well, kinda. We’ll be working late again tonight, and I have the exam Friday morning, but that’ll only take a few hours and I’ll be home before noon, in time to relax and enjoy the weekend.

Not bad so far. Good group, relatively interesting class, having fun with the other class members. Will undoubtedly need drink(s) again tonight. Only regret is that I haven’t made it to the gym yet. I’m hoping to get down there tomorrow night or Thursday and shoot some hoop.

In other news, they keep making me think there’s actually hope.

Hey, all right! It turns out that the rooms here now have net access, so I’m able to post and email like a normal human.

Day 1 was pretty good. This prof seems ok…funny, and seems intent on making HR (which has the potential to be very boring) fairly interesting. But we’ll see if I still feel this way on Wednesday or Thursday. Tonight will be light…a bit more posting, then dinner, then a few hours of group work, then some drinks, then some relaxation time.

So Biff’s was a fine way to kick off Winterlicious They seemed to be in mid-chaotic spin when we arrived, so we waited 20 minutes for our table (next to a rather pungent cheese tray). However, the server was terribly nice and the maitre’d was very apologetic, and the food was worth the wait.

The butternut squash soup with blue cheese was excellent. So was the coq au vin. The ice cream was good, as far as ice creams go, and made me want to visit Soma even more than I already do.

We were having a raucous, crazy, nutty, insane, call-the-cops time with G&C, but since I have to get up early tomorrow and head up north, I was the pooper of this particular party and so decided to go home.

Next up: The Strip House with T-Bone.

9:24 AM on a Saturday, and I’m at work. This sucks. That it’s my own fault just makes it worse. I decided to change the password on a database server to tighten up the security a bit, but it messed up a bunch of overnight jobs. And since I’m away for a week, I need to make sure the nightly imports work.

This time tomorrow I’ll be up at the training center, all checked into the hotel, trying not to eat croissants, waiting for class to begin. You know, I’m really beginning to reconsider this whole MBA thing (you should know that I’ll say that at least 14 times over the next 3.5 years).

I’m leaving for a week — starting Sunday morning — to complete the intensive portion of my second MBA course (HR). Posting will be spotty at best…whatever I can manage when I have a break or get particularly bored.

I may drop a post in here tomorrow night after our first Winterlicious outing (at Biff’s), but in any case, have a good week. Here’re some links to keep you occupied whilst I’m away:

• Pierre Pettigrew: my new hero
• Baaaaa. Baaaaaa!!!
• Daily Dose Of Imagery continues to impress me, day after day. This shot makes me long to walk among skyscrapers.
• I want one of these
• I really wish shift would provide an RSS feed

As of Sunday morning I’ll be away for a week, so I probably won’t be posting at all. Stay tight, tigers.