The Formula 1 season kicked off this weekend. I have always been a huge F1 fan. In the past I used to really like Jacques Villeneuve, since he was Canadian but in recent years he has been driving unreliable, uncompetitive rides. I think I sort of will always cheer for Villeneuve but about 3 years ago I really started to enjoy the driving of Fernando Alonso. He is from Spain but he drives really really well. He drives for Renault. Villeneuve this year will be driving for BMW Sauber. . I think this will be a competitive ride with Jacques having a lot more success.
The Bahrain Grand Prix was very exciting and this season sure started off good. Villeneuve’s race came to an end with a firey blown engine. It was a pity since he was doing well and was looking to finish in the top 6 for sure. The main part of the race though was a battle between Shumacher and Alonso. It wasn’t until close to the end that Alonso pulled off a couple of fast laps and got a really nice pit stop to get ahead. . He won the race and started off a new season out in front of the Constructers Championship. Shumacher finished second. Raikonen who started in 20th place (crashed in qualifying) finished 3rd. I can’t wait for the next race!
With almost another week gone bye, I have finished another midterm CS306. On Friday I will have another quiz in Chinese 100. I am really enjoying that class due to the fact that I already know so much of what we are learning and just how easy it is to pick up all the new stuff. In not as good news, I had a CS340 assignment on Tuesday. I don’t think I will be getting a good mark on it seeing as how the second programming question didn’t work. Oh well, better luck on the next one I suppose. There can’t be many more days left in school since it is already into March. I believe I am done classes in the beginning of April. So that means about one month left then summer. Although my summer will consist of full time employment, I am awaiting the change of pace.
Last Friday, I made it out to the Owl for Arthur’s Birthday. I had a really good time. I would have liked to stay longer and have more to drink but I had to drive home and get to work by 8 the next morning. Maybe we could all do it again sometime since I had a lot of fun.
The break was good while it lasted. Having returned to school, I have had to get back to studying. The midterms this week are CS340, and Econ202. Both of which require a great deal of memorization and understanding. Econ202 shouldn’t be too dificult but for some reason this semester I am finding it to be more difficult. I think this might have to do with the prof. Dar seems to write incredible amounts of notes and this seems to overcomplicate rather simple ideas. I prefer that simple ideas have simple explanations. Oh well what can I do.
In other news, Ben is back from college in Alberta now. Arthur is having a birthday upcoming, and I will attempt to make it to the Owl on Friday night. . although I work till 9 and then again the next morning at 8. This seems like plenty of time but I shall see.
So far, with only 4 days down on the break, I’ve been having a good time. It feels good not having to worry about finishing anything or having to do anything. That of course shouldn’t be the case but I’ve been lazy. I’ve actually been busy so far working on Friday, Sunday, and now Tuesday. This has kept me busy for the most part. I’ve also been enjoying watching some movies and generally just killing time. The Olympics have kept me interested.
A good movie for everyone to check out is Waiting. It is a comedy that is based in a restaraunt called Shenanigans. I think that this has to be a good representation of what working in a restaraunt must be like. I found myself laughing quite a bit throughout, especially scenes with Dane Cook. That guy is hilarious. You can get it from Amazon with the following link, Waiting DVD as well as check out the details on imdb
Well it’s that time of year again; Reading Week. I don’t think that I will actually spend much time reading or even going over school work but that is the name it has been given. My goal for the week is to try to relax and goto work. I also plan on watching more Olympics and cheering for Canada. They need all the cheering they can get it seems. The mens hockey team lost again; a 2-0 loss to Finland. I think we should be able to pull it together for the playoffs. We seem to be doing really well at getting medals though, much better than our Summer Olympics results.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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