I am very, very, very tired. And hungry. And it’s fixin’ to be a looooong night.
Anyone up for a little prison breakout? I need mercenaries, transportation and a Hero Burger.
[tags]prison break, mba[/tags]
Category: MBA
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Lunch today: potatoes, Mexican corn and trout. The potatoes were edible, the rest less so.
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The alarm clock in my room is enormous. It looks kind of like the machine that Jeff Goldblum builds in The Fly. Or the monolith in 2001. It also has more controls than an F-16 cockpit. On the plus side, I can plug my Zen into it and the sound isn’t too bad.
[tags]bad food, alarm clocks[/tags]
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Interesting things that happened today:
- I saw a bunny eating the lawn outside. First time I’ve seen one up here.
- I discovered that this building has switched from Pepsi products to Coke products. This does not bode well for me getting a damn thing done this week. DP = productivity.
- I learned that middle-aged British professors with soft voices who discuss strategic analysis models could put a coffee-riddled chihuahua into a coma. Come Wednesday I shall require toothpicks to keep my eyes open.
[tags]mba[/tags]
Once more unto the confined learning environment, dear friends
On the DVP now, heading up to another intensive session.Looking forward to seeing everyone and getting some good sleep. Not looking forward to the food. God, give me strength. And some protein.
[tags]mba[/tags]
Working full time
I just submitted the term paper. What a steaming pile of crap. I’m almost embarassed to put my name on it, but time just didn’t permit a stellar offering this time, so I’ll happily take a 9/15.
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If you haven’t heard the 2005 album Tournament Of Hearts by The Constantines, go find it. You owe it to yourself.
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Today was an interesting day at work. One of our senior executives has taken ~40 people and locked us all in a bunch of conference rooms with some strategy consultants. Most of the people in the room are fairly senior, and we’re all meant to be pretty smart, so some interesting ideas came up. You can tell they’re driving us toward something bigger (we’re there for two more days); hopefully my brain’s still in it come Friday at 5PM.
The most amazing thing is that they managed to get all these senior managers, directors and VPs to focus. No one was running off to take phone calls or dash back to the office. No one’s Blackberry went off in the sessions. It was like we were all teleported back to 1992 when attention spans were in vogue. Crazy.
[tags]strategy paper, constantines[/tags]
Stoopid WordPress
Gar. I had a long post all written up but WordPress (or possibly my host?) decided to cack and it disappeared. I can’t be bothered to remember it all or write it all again, so here’s the summary version:
- We had dinner last night at Fieramosca with CBGB. That was great.
- I got my hair cut today and ate some gelato. That was great.
- I realized today that I have a paper due next week, and I haven’t even started it. That sucked.
- Darth Vader’s a jackass.
Blargh.
[tags]fieramosca, gelato, darth vader[/tags]
We can, we're strong, we'll beat it
New music I’ve been listening to:
- a sunny day in glasgow . “5-15 train”
- black taj . “woke up tired”
- dandy warhols . “she sells sanctuary”
- dt’s . “330 freedom”
- fujiya & miyagi . “casettesingle”
- jandek . “nancy sings”
- junior boys . “in the morning (hot chip remix)”
- katie melua . “i cried for you”
- kissaway trail . “61”
- maximo park . “our velocity”
- motor . “bleep”
- papercuts . “take the 227th exit”
The Kissaway Trail and DT’s songs are particularly good.
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From the “disgusting for more than one reason” file, we have this from CNN: a woman in Texas says a jury shouldn’t blame her husband for microwaving their baby, they should blame the devil.
Holy shee-ite.
Anyway…
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Wrote 2/3 of my paper today. Couldn’t bring myself to write the whole thing. Bad, bad MBA candidate…
[tags]kisaway trail, microwaved baby[/tags]
Going out with a very big bang
Is it cruel to rename your animals after several years? Granted, they’re cats so it’s not as if they give a shit what we call them, but today Nellie floated the idea of naming them Ryan and Cyril instead of Sonny and Michael. Ryan was smart and scheming, whereas Cyril was mentally challenged, so it fits. And we could name the Roomba McManus or something.
If you didn’t watch Oz, you likely have no idea what I’m talking about.
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Wow…while poking through IMDB there I noticed that John Cazale — Fredo — acted in only five feature films before his death: The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter. All five were nominated for the best picture Oscar. That’s a pretty impressive body of work for the final six years of one’s life.
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OK, back to my [yawn] corporate strategy paper.
[tags]ryan o’reilly, cyril o’reilly, sonny corleone, michael corleone, pet names, john cazale[/tags]
Kinda-stranger in a slightly strange land
Forgot to mention: just after I printed my exam (I was one of the few people who typed it, which I think led me to type twice as much as anyone else wrote) I walked back to the computer and closed MS Word…which promptly crashed the computer. Like, Blue Screen Of Death crash. Good thing I printed first. That would have been a suck.
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It feels good to be home. As soon as I got home I went and grabbed some lunch, and I realized it’s the first time since we moved that I had to chance to actually look at any of the new neighbourhood. I know it well enough so it’s not like things are a mystery, but I like the idea of discovering all the shortcuts and back alleys and hidden spots. Now I’ve just gotta find some time…
[tags]blue screen of death, st. lawrence market, toronto neighbourhoods[/tags]
Aaaaaaaaand i'm spent
All done. Just on my way home now, about to get on the DVP.
[tags]mba, dvp[/tags]
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