And another quarter begins restarting the cycle of quarter intro posts.

BUS 320 Intro to Marketing Management at 1100 M/W

BUS 350 Business Finance at 1530 M/W

BUS 475 Managing Innovation at 1315 M/W

I’m rather pleased with my actual class lineup. The courses themselves are exactly what I need and there is no gap in between classes. The course times however are rather annoying as they are smack dab in the center of the day which makes things rather unhelpful in trying arrange work around it. Which currently isn’t an issue being unemployed but that state of being is not where I intend to be long.

All the classes should prove to be rather interesting and -not- dull. I hope to learn a fair bit with these classes.

I’m now done with two-thirds of my class load and once I turn in this ridiculous paper, I will be officially done with UWB Fall quarter 2007. Yosh!

Last Wednesday I took my Organization of Business final and made my join presentation with Neemund for our Political Ideology class. I pretty much failed there. Somehow I managed to speak for what? three minutes? out of the ten, twenty minutes that the presentation was supposed to go for. Thankfully Neemund was a little more knowledgeable on our subject then myself and that the flooding of last Monday forced that session of group presentations to use half our sessions time as well cutting our presentation short. And I did a good job as "facilitating class discussion" so it’s not all bad. More than sufficient for a make-work class.

Today I took my Managerial Economics final which to be honest I was rather dreading. I’ve done rather abysmal in that class and was fearing that my sole chance of redemption would be crushed but that fear was rather unfounded. This test was the easiest one I took in that class and I’m allowed to use that score to replace my poorest exam score so I’m not going to fail like I feared. *crosses fingers*

My term paper is for Political Ideologies on the topic of government subsidies for nuclear energy programs. I started it late last night and now have almost completed it. I’m rather impressed myself. Contrary to the popular belief that people work best under pressure, the "doing it at the last minute" method is a rather foolish way to go about things and will be something that I’ll be correcting that next quarter. Then again I’ve said that quarter after quarter. We shall see.

I’m going to enjoy the winter break. While it won’t be all fun and games as I have several things on my plate, I do have several big events that’ll be pretty fun. Most noticeably the World Domination New Year’s Party that Rabenstrange and I will be hosting. More on that later.

And I wish I was in my bed snoring…

Today is the first Monday of the month which means it’s inventory day. Yosh!

I got up at 3am to head over to Safeway and undergo the tedious amounts of counting required to get a proper inventory record. Thankfully everything wasn’t covered in ice as I had feared. Instead the weather consisted of rain, rain, and even more rain. Inventory went much quicker this time as I’ve become pretty accustomed to how it works. I even managed to find virtually all of the product in our tally sheets which amazed me. They were once sheets of absolute gibberish producing headaches and confusion merely by looking at them but now I’ve started to decipher how they work and have become more familiar with them in the course of my orders.

I’ve come a long way from when I first started. It’s just a little of a year now that I’ve been employed at Safeway. I had only intended to be there for a little bit using it as a stepping stone to launch myself into a “better” field. Or perhaps more accurately, to get my dad off my back. He’d keep waking me up early in the morning, jumping on my bed and demanding that I go get myself a job.

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I received back the results of my second midterm today and they are Not Good. Not good at all.

My econ test pretty much was a failure as I left my calculator at home and when it came to do equation busting I got lost in my own math. Entire pages were scribbled in numbers and symbols. I’d start on something, realize it was wrong and work at it another way, repeating this process many times. I got confused at the sheer amount of numbers that I wrote down and mixed stuff up. Ugh… In the end I broke down the problems into the equations that they needed to be in to correctly solved and all that needed to be done was to simplify by punching it into a calc. I no longer had the time nor page space to finish that last bit so I left it as is. Apparently TAs don’t appreciate that. On a side note: I find it rather frustrating that a teacher delegates test grading to a TA. Ugh…

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I wish I did have an answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. And no, the generic response, “42″ just does not cut it.

Life is awesome. Who can really complain about all the wonders that God has done?

But like my Dad tells me, “Life is good if you don’t weaken.” And I’m afraid I’m weakening.

Ever since my return from Japan, my days have been full. Very much so. It reached to the point where I just didn’t sleep for a week or so. Thankfully I’m past that as I just wouldn’t be able to carry on but that doesn’t mean my workload has changed any. In fact life has brought about even more stuff to bring me down. And I feel the tugs pull harder each day.

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