I Took A Break

Yep, it is true.  I barely opened a book yesterday.  And I had a great time!

On Wednesday, Alan found a great deal at a downtown Toronto hotel which led to me driving to Toronto on Friday night, staying at a friend's house (no need to stay at a hotel when you have friends!), and visiting with five people in 2.5 days.  I was good on Saturday morning.  I was up just past six, like usual, and tackled my Economics reading.  Then I made some progress on some Finance and Accounting homework.  Then the socializing began and the books did not come out again until I got home last night.

I notice that in my last post I mentioned sending out an email to the other leads in the scary Annual Report Project.  Well, I heard back from one.  He indicated that my outline seemed logical, but that they were no where near that level of readiness, so he could not comment further.  The other two must not check their Queen's email in the off-school time. I am a wee bit disappointed in the lack of participation.  I guess I'll have to get over it since I'll be rolling out the assignment plan for my team on Saturday.

One of my team members might not have submitted part of an assignment that is due this week.  I am afraid that he (no need to say "they" to protect gender since I am the only female) is struggling with Accounting and is too proud to say anything.  I have followed up with the lead on the project but have not heard back from him.  I didn't want to bug the team member (ie: offer assistance) if he had submitted his part directly to the lead instead of posting it to the portal.  So, I feel pretty awkward about it all right now.  I suppose it'll all get resolved at tonight's Skype call.  And I was cautioned by our former Team Coach (yes, former, he got promoted so we have a new team coach) not to become the "team mom".  Perhaps that is what I am doing... acting like the team mom.  That or I am afraid that the guy is going to drop out of the program (or worse, get kicked out) and we'll be in a huge crunch to get some of his work done.

In case you are interested in what kind of homework I have going on, here's a list:

1. Q-T Exercise done
2. Twelve Angry Men paper:  I only get looped in on Thursday, due date is October 6th.
3. Paper on the ethics of buying land in other countries to grow food for your country when the country where you bought the land is full of starving people.  I need to find a better title for that!  Anyway, it's due October 8th.
4. Reading for Marketing Management: 2 articles and one chapter from the text.  done
5. Fifteen (15) Finance and Accounting problems that will take about 45mins to an hour each.  I have three done.
6. The above-mentioned Annual Report Project.  It's due November 17th, but will probably take the full remaining time to get it done.  My assignment plan is due to the team on Saturday or sooner.
7. Economics: read six chapters (four are done) and three articles

So that is what is going on in the land of school.