Hee hee hee! Ah, Bruce MacKinnon, you make the day that much easier to start…
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We’re in the home stretch now. Friday never seems like much work, so today is the only full day left.
63.8%
Day 4 is kaput. This was the hardest one to get through, in that I nearly fell asleep many times and drifted off frequently. What made it worse is that there was a really interesting, really informative research presentation going on back at work that I would so rather have been at.
Our “homework” for tonight was to review the sample exam so that we can go over it tomorrow. I’ve already done the freakin’ sample exam, so now I’m not sure what to do with myself. Maybe I’ll do it again just for shits & giggles.
56.1%
John Doyle asks the same question in the Globe today that I asked last week: what happened to The Shield?
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One weird thing about this building: it’s incredibly dry. My skin is so dry that my knuckles are cracking and bleeding, and my face looks like I’ve just gone for a job through the Alkali salt flats. I guess it’s because I’m living in recycled air 24 hours a day, or because the towels are like #30 sandpaper.
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I cannot believe how stupid this movie looks. Which means it’ll do great business at the box office.
48.7%
I’m finding the Aplia Econ blog really interesting. Maybe it’s because I’m in the middle of economics week right now; let’s see if I’m still digging on it next week.
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The Hot Docs lineup is out. The temptation to look at that rather than study: almost overwhelming.
43.5%
Day three is behind us. I have a few minutes’ break and then head back over to the “social center” for a little group chat with our company’s COO. This morning we had a presentation from our Chief Economist, so it’s been an executive kind of day.
We also had a complete shift in the approach of our prof. We were going way too slow, and some people said something, so now we’re off to the races. We still haven’t encountered anything difficult, and I’m starting to think I’m spending effort on the wrong things. I’m just going to work through some of the sample exam tonight after this COO thing and go from there. I think everything else may be, as one colleague likes to put it, an “attractive nuisance”.
Honestly, this feels too easy to me. I know I don’t have that good a grip on economics, so either this course is geared too low for us or the other shoe is gonna drop on Friday morning.
36.2%
I want a “Bomb The Blogosphere” t-shirt like Marten’s. Of course, I’m sure that’s what Jeph is planning.
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You just know that any article called “Why the Leafs stink” is going to make me happy.
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By the way, in case you haven’t figured it out, the percentages in the title field shows how far through this week’s course I am. I also happen to be 39% of the way through the overall program. Hooray for me.
24.3%
Day two: down. Just finished most of my “homework”. Will probably get something to eat, finish the rest, review some other stuff and maybe watch 24 before heading to the bar to see who’s out and about. No exercise tonight: it’s yoga and volleyball in the gym.
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Have been having weird computer problems all day. Half the time my laptop can’t find an IP address on this network, but it only seems to be my laptop. The tech support guy thinks it might be a security policy that was pushed down last week and is causing some problems for me now. All I know is, it seems to come and go randomly, so…argh.
15.6%
The Canadiens beat the Penguins last night to jump into a 7th place tie with New Jersey. Jersey, by the way, lost to the Leafs. This was one game that I didn’t mind the Leafs winning.
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Managed to get lots of exercise in last night. There were only three of us out shooting hoops, so we played bump. Many, many games of bump. Still managed to get my work done and head to the bar for a drink too. A good night, overall.
5.3%
Ugh. This place, shockingly enough, didn’t prepare the best duck I’ve ever had. I’m still hungry!
Anyway…done most of my homework already so I’m going to go shoot hoops in a little while.
3.4%
Here I am again, trapped in the compound. Day 1 (well…we didn’t start until 1:00 so it wasn’t exactly a full day) of economics is behind us, and I have just a little bit of work to do tonight. Homework, as it were. As you might expect, the content’s a bit dry, but I can live with that.
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