There is something about Arctic air that I just don’t like. . . if you can’t figure out what that could be then you have never lived through a Saskatchewan winter. I thought that this would be the year; a year without any frigid cold Arctic air coming down and freezing all of us. We got all the way into February and the worst we had seen was only -20. We had the warmest January on record! Now this. Today I think the high was around -30 or so, but then you have the wind. The wind chill was probably around -46 all day. Now the night, I can only imagine the horrors it will bring. The forecast now says -36 with a windchill of -50. There is an end in sight to all this mayhem. The long range forecast is calling for sunny days ahead with a high on Monday back up to -5. In the meantime, I better go back and make sure my car is plugged in.
Midterms and Coop
Time has come for midterms. Up first is a midterm for CS290AF, the java class. I am not sure what to expect for the midterm. So far the quizes have been tricky which I believe to be a ploy to lower the class average to a respectable level. I sure hope the midterm isn’t quick so tricky but I’m going to make sure to keep a sharp eye out for any tricks. After this midterm on Friday, I have another Chinese 100 quiz. I did not bad on the first quiz but it wasn’t 100%. I am going to have to try harder this time to strive for perfection. I hope that this will be the class to really boost my average up. After this, I have a week off for school. Yay to Spring Break! Then I come back from the break and have a CS340 midterm and then an Econ202 midterm. I am not going to be happy for both of these at all. I guess I should probably do a little bit of studying during the break but I doubt I will get anything done. Since I never seem to actually study for these things beforehand.
Interviews Complete
I have finally finished all my job interviews for my coop job for the summer. I think I should be able to find a nice job that will allow me to have plenty of money. I’ll have to try to balance it out so that I am saving a portion of my earnings so that way when I go back to school I will still have a lot of money around.
Back to the job interviews. The interviews weren’t very stressful at all for me. I remained relaxed and confident throughout. I think that this has to do with my prior experience for past job interviews. Some of the jobs sounded really interesting and there were some other jobs that were only slightly interesting. I only applied for jobs that I would be interested in working at this semester. This helped me since I knew the jobs that I would be doing and the material in their fields. This game me a knowledge boost for the interviews and I was able to better express myself. I will find out next week how I am ranked at the jobs and then I will go from there. If I am ranked number 1 by more than one job I will get to decide where I work. If only 1 then thats where I will be, and if no rankings . . . I better be looking for more employment elsewhere.
Saskatchewan Wins
Congratulations to Erin, Megan and Mandy Selzer on their awesome Canadian junior women’s national title. They had a great tournament, playing some good curling, and now they get to go to Korea to represent Canada. Too bad that Korea doesn’t speak Chinese or I could have taught you some vocabulary. I had the game on while I was at work and all the customers kept gathering around to watch the action. You all did a good job at representing Saskatchewan, and now you get to continue that by represting the whole country. Way to go, you rock at curling :)
Marble Blast Ultra
Finally, after a long wait, Marble Blast Ultra has been released to the Xbox Live Arcade. So far it looks like everyone has good things to say about it. I am definitely going to go buy it for the 800 points. It looks so polished for being a game that costs so little. Great job by all the folks at GarageGames for creating this and finally getting it certified.
Coop Resume Day
Today was the Coop Office’s Resume day. I believe that I was able to find a bunch of great looking jobs for the upcoming work term. I am hopeful that everything will go well and I’ll be out working for the summer. If I don’t end up getting a job anywhere, I could always go into this interesting International Business class. Since its a summer class, I think it will only last a short time. The highlight of the class is a 10 day tour of China. They will visit to Beijing and Shanghai. I think that would be very fun. The total cost for that class says it would be $2500. I’m definitely keeping my options open for that one!
Busy Busy
The past couple days have been rather busy for me. Although I have been way busier in the past, being busy now snuck up on me. I had a simple assignment in CS306 for Monday, and then a moderately difficult assignment for CS340 due Tuesday. Now, I have to get my resume, and everything all in order and apply for jobs for Wednesday for coop. Luckily, my Chinese 100 quiz on Friday shouldn’t be too dificult. I just have to focus on when she speaks and I’ll get the tones correct. Writing the words comes easily to me. Java 290 on Thursday should be some more fun. I’m really enjoying that class and look forward to it every week.
Final Fantasy XI
I just got the newest issue of the official Xbox Magazine. Inside this issue is a full beta for Final Fantasy XI. It took me a couple hours to install, setup, and patch but it looks interesting so far. I’m sure I will play it a little bit for the 2 months that the beta is free. After that though, I doubt I will pay monthy for it. I have never played a MMORPG before so I still don’t really know what I am suppose to be doing or where to go. . I guess I’m just a big noob.
McDeal
I don’t eat at McDonald’s very often but when I do I try to order the McDeal of the day. The trouble is. . I’m afraid I’ll go and it will be the Fillet-o-fish mcdeal. This scares me from going to McDonald’s any days between Thursday and Saturday. Since I know that is when the fish is out. I’ve decided to just list the McDeal’s that way everyone is able to see and make a smart decision before they head out.
Mon: Big Extra
Tues: Big Mac
Wed: Mcchicken
Thurs: 2 Cheeseburgers
Fri: Fillet o fish
Sat: Bacon Double Cheesburger
Sun: Quarter Pounder
Xbox Training
Finally! I have been waiting for over a month now for my Xbox Training prize. I ordered Project Gotham Racing 3 and Perfect Dark Zero. It seems like they have been on backorder or something so I had to wait, and wait. Well I just checked today again, and the status now saying In-Process. It looks like I will be getting these games sometime in January!! Good times are ahead indeed. In other shipping news, I finally received two of my textbooks in the mail today. It feels great to buy textbooks less than half of what the bookstore is charging. Talk about a rip off. My goal is to boycott them as much as possible since I don’t like their business practises of buying textbooks back off students for super cheap and then reselling them for over double. Especially when they probably sold the original textbooks to begin with. For them its a lot of profit IMO.