Saturday, January 15, 2005
Trying to keep busy
Today I spent around the house talking to James about stuff and John about upgrading my computer, he wants to bring my current 128megs up to 128+256 (so 384megs) of RAM. So I'm going to look at that, and hopefully my computer problems will be very few after I finish that.
In about an hour I'm going to call Vicki and see if I can come over tonight and we can watch a movie or play cards or something. (James suggested I get out of the house, so thats what I'm doing).
Haven't got any plans for tomorrow yet.
I'm working on two projects - one that I started when I was in Timmins and the other that I had the idea for on the way back and am going to go through with now. Hopefully I'll finish them soon.
Maybe tomorrow I might make cookies.
So for the rest of today I'm working on the first project - tomorrow I may go out and get what I need for the second one and start it or I may spend the day baking and cleaning my room (my room really really needs it - it hasn't been cleaned at all since I got back from Timmins and it hasn't recieved a complete cleaning since about three weeks before Christmas.
I talked with the academic counselor yesterday and she said there's still nothing I can do but talk with Al Pollac (I have no clue how you spell his name so I can't e-mail him) and see if he'll put me in his course for 2 of the 4 hours, then if he agrees to my plan then maybe I can take only 2*16 hours of Philosophy and pass the course (after all I got a 50 doing about 20 hours, so if I actually do 32 hours (the course is 64 hours) I should pass right? And in any case, I've done the course, I feel like I demonstrated my knowledge in Philosophy to be extremely high on my final and my essays and tests that I did were all very well done. Thus I believe that with some effort I can easily pass the course this time around and get pretty good marks actually. It's mainly the rationality part of the course that I have to focus on as I didn't get to do much of that while in Jane's class. I really want to take the Philosophy though as
1) I still want to go to one of Waterloo or Guelph next year, no matter what happens between now and thenbecause I feel like there is nothing for me here.
2) Even if I do stay here and finish my DEC, I'll need this Philosophy or I'll be two semesters behind and if anything doesn't schedule next semester then I'm screwed into staying here yet another year after that to finish my DEC.
Anyways while at Vicki's house I also have to set up her LAN between her computer and her mothers because apparently her lack of internet is driving her crazy. I've got most of the stuff I need, I just think I need to pick up another ethernet cable as I've only one - but my dad may have another one, I must go look and see.
After I talk with Al on Monday and then Judy again to check out my other option of taking some extra courses to get up to 12 OAC equivilent courses (I've only 10 at this point if I pass everything this semester) in summer school, I will either decide to go ahead and apply to university that night or not to apply at all, depending on what we decide Monday.
Tuesday, I'm off to my appointment at LaserQuest about a job. They asked me about several things.
1) Experiance handling money. I have none asides from my normal day to day finances.
2) Experiance with public speaking. My english debate and my experiance as a counselor were my best two examples.
3) Formal classes with computers. A grade 10 class in computer programming, covered HTML JavaScript and Visual Basic. A CEGEP course covering MS Office included Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Based on these examples, I suspect I won't be asked to run the cash and I might be asked to work as a marshall, but I expect for the first bit and depending on how my interview goes, I will merely be expected to work on their computer systems and do the dirty work (mopping, sweeping, cleaning, etc)
But oh well, money is money right?
They're supposed to pay at least 8/hour as a starting wage and possibly higher, so it is good money. I told them I was looking to work about 30 hours a week, maybe more and the times I was available and they still wanted me in for an interview. So I am happy now. Tuesday shall tell all and I shall dress as well as I can. I am glad for the recent shopping spree which left me with so much semi-formal "science student" clothing.
anyways, I've a project to work on and am supposed to be calling vicki in roughly 40 minutes to an hour and ten minutes so that's about it for this entry.
*has resolved not to mope* and i'm sorry about the last two entries that were full of self-pity.
*hugs to Courtney*
Later all
In about an hour I'm going to call Vicki and see if I can come over tonight and we can watch a movie or play cards or something. (James suggested I get out of the house, so thats what I'm doing).
Haven't got any plans for tomorrow yet.
I'm working on two projects - one that I started when I was in Timmins and the other that I had the idea for on the way back and am going to go through with now. Hopefully I'll finish them soon.
Maybe tomorrow I might make cookies.
So for the rest of today I'm working on the first project - tomorrow I may go out and get what I need for the second one and start it or I may spend the day baking and cleaning my room (my room really really needs it - it hasn't been cleaned at all since I got back from Timmins and it hasn't recieved a complete cleaning since about three weeks before Christmas.
I talked with the academic counselor yesterday and she said there's still nothing I can do but talk with Al Pollac (I have no clue how you spell his name so I can't e-mail him) and see if he'll put me in his course for 2 of the 4 hours, then if he agrees to my plan then maybe I can take only 2*16 hours of Philosophy and pass the course (after all I got a 50 doing about 20 hours, so if I actually do 32 hours (the course is 64 hours) I should pass right? And in any case, I've done the course, I feel like I demonstrated my knowledge in Philosophy to be extremely high on my final and my essays and tests that I did were all very well done. Thus I believe that with some effort I can easily pass the course this time around and get pretty good marks actually. It's mainly the rationality part of the course that I have to focus on as I didn't get to do much of that while in Jane's class. I really want to take the Philosophy though as
1) I still want to go to one of Waterloo or Guelph next year, no matter what happens between now and thenbecause I feel like there is nothing for me here.
2) Even if I do stay here and finish my DEC, I'll need this Philosophy or I'll be two semesters behind and if anything doesn't schedule next semester then I'm screwed into staying here yet another year after that to finish my DEC.
Anyways while at Vicki's house I also have to set up her LAN between her computer and her mothers because apparently her lack of internet is driving her crazy. I've got most of the stuff I need, I just think I need to pick up another ethernet cable as I've only one - but my dad may have another one, I must go look and see.
After I talk with Al on Monday and then Judy again to check out my other option of taking some extra courses to get up to 12 OAC equivilent courses (I've only 10 at this point if I pass everything this semester) in summer school, I will either decide to go ahead and apply to university that night or not to apply at all, depending on what we decide Monday.
Tuesday, I'm off to my appointment at LaserQuest about a job. They asked me about several things.
1) Experiance handling money. I have none asides from my normal day to day finances.
2) Experiance with public speaking. My english debate and my experiance as a counselor were my best two examples.
3) Formal classes with computers. A grade 10 class in computer programming, covered HTML JavaScript and Visual Basic. A CEGEP course covering MS Office included Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Based on these examples, I suspect I won't be asked to run the cash and I might be asked to work as a marshall, but I expect for the first bit and depending on how my interview goes, I will merely be expected to work on their computer systems and do the dirty work (mopping, sweeping, cleaning, etc)
But oh well, money is money right?
They're supposed to pay at least 8/hour as a starting wage and possibly higher, so it is good money. I told them I was looking to work about 30 hours a week, maybe more and the times I was available and they still wanted me in for an interview. So I am happy now. Tuesday shall tell all and I shall dress as well as I can. I am glad for the recent shopping spree which left me with so much semi-formal "science student" clothing.
anyways, I've a project to work on and am supposed to be calling vicki in roughly 40 minutes to an hour and ten minutes so that's about it for this entry.
*has resolved not to mope* and i'm sorry about the last two entries that were full of self-pity.
*hugs to Courtney*
Later all
// posted by Dep @ 4:32:00 p.m.
