My ‘worst’ exam – the one I was stressing the most about – was first.  It’s done.  I’m hoping I passed, especially since it’s worth 40% of my final mark.  Meep.  I just couldn’t study over the weekend.  It was HORRIBLE.

I’ve got .Net today at 1pm, which should be easypeasy.  It’s an open book exam, and we only have two and a half hours to write a program, so it’s not going to be uber complicated.  Yay!

Advanced Java is tomorrow afternoon.  I think I remember him saying something about us being supplied a ‘cheat sheet’ for the exam. As far as I know it’s a pen-and-paper exam, so we’ll see how that goes, I guess.

Thursday is my icky day: DBMS at 8:30 and then Network Computing (the Novell half – ugh, Novell sucks) at 2pm.  The SQL stuff for DBMS is no problem – just simple selects and table creation, no big.  It’s the table normalization stuff that I know I can do, I just can’t explain why/how I do it.  That’s what’s got me on assignments for this class, and what will probably get me on the exam.  We’ll see now Networking goes.

Friday is going to be a ‘no brainer’ type day, because it’s our Web Development exam.  It shouldn’t be too difficult, especially since I’ve done that before.  XHTML and CSS.  No big deal.  Just as long as we don’t have to remember the complete doctype tags at the top of the page.

Friday, apparently, there are a couple of us going to Speedworld after our exam.  Zoom zoom!

I should start doing a bit of last minute .Net studying, else get some Java studied for tomorrow.  Studying, apparently, is good!

How the hell is it time for midterms already? Didn’t we just get back to class after a too short summer with crappy weather? I remember summer lasting so much longer when I was a kid. Now, you blink and it’s gone.

School is going okay. All technical classes this term, and even though I’m still only technically in my first year still, the workload seems to be that much more heavy than it was last term. You have no idea how glad I am that I was able to drop Girl Guides this year. I wouldn’t be able to sleep if I had to still do that on top of school, work, and hockey. And then I would be insane, which wouldn’t be a good thing.

Life is crazy, and I’m just along for the ride. It seems all of my married friends are expecting, so next year is going to be a busy year for babies! I’m excited. Babies are cute.

iPod just shuffled to two Pearl Jam songs. Yay! Spin the Black Circle and then Porch. NICE.

I miss my friends. There is a social tomorrow night, so I’m hoping I can get enough work done tonight (around SG:U!!!!) that I can justify taking tomorrow night off homework. Or I will anyway, but I do need to get a good start on my Java project that is due on Wednesday.

Ugh. Long bus ride. I dislike taking the bus home during non-peak hours. It takes twice as long as the express does and just takes soooo long. Blah. It is cheaper than me taking my car to school everyday, though. I’m just whiny.

LOL wah wah wah! I’m a whiny baby!

Anyway. Not too far now. Maybe I’ll have a nap and listen to music and try to ignore the guy’s elbow in the back of my neck.

It is day three of class for fall term, my second attended day of classes (I was sick yesterday, boo), and my second term. Scary thing: after this fall term, then winter term, I have my co-op term over the summer. Then one term after that, and I’m done!! Holy crap.

I’m actually not working with my Brownie unit this year, so that will also free up some time.  I am so relieved that I get to take a break this year.  I was burning out a bit, I think.  But anyone who wants cookies, let me know.  I have an in.

The Cancercare Dragonboat festival is next weekend, yay! I was going to be steersperson, but I changed my mind. I was not comfortable during the first practice trying to steer us. We almost ran aground. Oops. I’ll stay as a paddler.

School: My schedule is actually not to bad this term.  I only have two 8 am starts, the rest are 9 am classes.  I’m out early again on Thursday (3pm), late on Tuesday (5pm), and 4pm the rest of the week.  I’ve got 6 classes again:

• Database Management
• Network Administration
• Analysis and Design Methods 1
• Progamming (.NET Introduction)
• Web Development
• Programming (Advanced Java)

It’s going to be a heavy term, I think, but at least I don’t have to deal with Accounting (that comes back to haunt me next term), Economics or Business Communication.  Yay.

I’m glad I’m back at school.  The summer went by way too fast, even though I was an underemployed student. Oh well.

Okay. DBMS class. I should pay attention.

eta: Oops. Typo. Welcome doesn’t start with a ‘D’.

Oh! Kid is awake, so I should go pull him from his crib.

I’m such a geek.

So, I went to Apple’s site and went through their troubleshooting steps.  Which didn’t work, by the way.  So I filled out the service request form on the site and they said they’d be in contact with me in a couple of business days.  So, yay.

Today, a FedEx guy comes to the door and drops off a box for me.  Not remembering ordering anything that would come by FedEx, I find out it’s how I’m sending my iPod back to Apple.  On the box – a preprinted shipping label.  Inside the box, foam with a cut out roughly the shape of an iPod touch, a baggie to put it in and, this is what’s blowing my mind – pre-cut PACKING TAPE TO TAPE THE BOX SHUT.

Holy crap.  My iPod is packed up, so I should probably get showered and dressed and stuff, and get this to FedEx so I can get my iPod back!

The Manitoba Moose lost 4-1 to the Hershey Bears in game 6 of the Calder Cup finals. BOO. It was the Moose’s first time making it to the finals in franchise history, so YAY, but boo on loss. But yay on making it that far!

Technically, we’ve started exams already, having written done our online Cisco Network Fundamentals exam Monday afternoon.  For the amount that I had to study over the weekend, I was satisfied with my mark.  Not overly happy with it, mind you, but satisfied.  76.1% is enough to get me the certificate, and possibly a letter.

The second half of our Networking exam is tomorrow – Subnetting.  I think I’ve finally got a handle on it, but we’ll find out tomorrow, I guess.

I have the weekend off work, so I’ll be pretty much barricaded in my room for the entire thing studying.

Today was a bit of a waste for getting up and coming here.  I’ve done nothing all day except play Poker and Bejeweled on Facebook and found out that I did kind of shitty on the accounting test I forgot about yesterday.   I passed, but still.

Just killing time before heading up to Java class.  Hopefully he’ll go over the review quickly (as quickly as he can g0, which isn’t all that quick), and then I can get the hell out of here.  I’m tired and cranky, and want to go home to put on comfy pants.

Blah.  I can’t wait for May 1st.

<3 – Was posted by a few people around LJ.