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Sitting at Bogani's on my third large coffee, I am trying to finish my marketing assignment that's due tomorrow at 2pm. Of course that's when it hits me...there is less than 4 weeks left in this term and I'm struggling to keep up! Damn it now how am I supposed to get anything done! Well off to the Greeds moms for dinner, and out to a party. Maybe I'll be able to force myself to work tomorrow before I head to my actual job. Who knows maybe I'll make it...

It's Good!

Just got my national exam results for last term back and it's a pass on both!! Not honours or anything but I'm happy with anything over 65%. It's just such a relief to know I don't have to look forward to re-writes with my three new nationals this term.

Serenity now...

Last weekend, friday, 10:45pm, I stood at my front door, tired, angry and evicted. The slumlords evil sidekick (Apt. Manager) and I tangled in a flurry of comments and anger. You see a month or so ago we put in a check in the mailbox for laundry tokens. Four days later we call him... Do you have our tokens yet. To which he replies no, but you'll get them tomorrow. Okay, another day passes and no tokens so we call and he delivers 5 out of the 45 needed to get us by and he'll bring the rest tomorrow. Another day passes and no more tokens, so she calls again... "do you have them now?" and he has the nerve to ask if we paid or put in for tokens! After a week of asking he has no recollection of our troubles with him. Very frustrating.

Fast forward to last friday, noon, and I call ahead to make sure he has tokens.
me: Are there tokens available for today?
him: the procedure hasn't changed, put it in the door and I bring them. I'm very busy and with 71 families I deliver them all at once.
me: I know but I'm just making sure I can get them today, I can't wait 4 days this time, or I'll go to the laundrymat.
him: Yeah, yeah...you'll get them just put your check in.
me: Okay it's in now.

The clock throughout the day crawls by at a blazing speed and 10:00pm finally hits. After a long day stewing about all the promises to the greeds I would not be following through. I call him:

me - "Hello, I was wondering when you were delivering todays tokens to everyone?"
And you know what he tells me
him - "Oh, I don't work weekends from 4pm until monday".
Snap.
me - "That would have been great if that was posted somewhere! But that's why I called you earlier."
him - "Oh, did you put in your check?"
me - "When I called... this morning."
him - "Well I just spent the entire day snaking electrical wires, but I get right on that!"
me - "Great".

Twenty-five minutes later he shows up to my door obviously pissed off. How many do you need he asks, and when I reply with fortyfive dollars worth he blows. He puts the 5 tokens he brought back in his pocket. You know with 71 families bugging me at all hours for these things I don't have to put up with smart ass remarks from some punk. I tell him (loudly) he sould post his hours and give some expectation when someone can get tokens or anything for that matter from him he might not have such a problem. Some louder words were exchanged both ways and he leaves down the hall. Just before I go into my apartment he mutters something about me being an asshole. And the last restraint in my body goes. I yell back at him "Well If you can't manage the building, maybe you should find a new job!". So he screams back with "You want to see how I manage my building, as of tomorrow morning consider yourself evicted!

So that about tells it. I was sick to my stomach with mid terms that week (last week now, they went fine), the Greeds birthday on the 14th, and the chores I promised to do not done I spent the night tossing and turning. After 2 hours of that looked for new apartments, packed up the laundry for the trip to the laundramat, and tossed and turned waiting to hear the notice slid under the door and hoping to grovel to get our place back for a few more months. When the greeds arrived home after her 12 hour night shift, I did what I usually do when I screw something up...I made breakfast! After finally getting around telling her what happened, she laughed and ran to call her mom with the "great" news and we finally get to move out and buy a place. So she was happy and shocked, you see it's usually her that gets angry and blows while I sit back and relax.

By the way, the next day late in the afternoon I got my tokens without the notice...and two days later he apologized!

One down and one to go...

After procrastinating this weekend studying for my nationals (I've decided I'm too good at it to give it up), I woke a 6:00 this morning to brush up and prepare for the exam at 9:30. After finishing the exam with 15 minutes to spare I feel great! That's right I cannot complain today. I know that it was not perfect or close, but I just want a pass. I'm sure that this weather has something to do with my mood, I live for the sun and the heat. It feels that I'm walking on air and flying, even the 45 min commute is a peaceful drive (with the wind in my hair!) I love it. Tomorrow if the sun is out I think I'll make the greedy go out on a date with me to the park. But that is after the last test tomorrow at 9:30 sharp....I'm not worried in the least. Yet.

Phew...

Well that was a stretch! The past few weeks have been insane. I have just wrapped up term II of my accelerated program. Over the past week alone I wrote 5 finals, with 2 national exams on the horizon for next week. Between work, school and making time for my wonderful wife (I'll refer to here as 'the greedy' or such for the most part I will explain more in a post tomorrow) I have lost quite a bit of sleep. Getting my marks though wasn't the hard part as most of my work paid off as I managed a decent mark, except the financial math I pulled a 60%. I remember back over the last couple of years the greeds had been taking a 3 year accelerated nursing program at Grant Macewan, she had so much to do and all the time. Me I am a laid individual, prefer to do the crossword with a coffee on the balcony on a sunny morning to relax personality. I helped as much as I could to support her and get her through that hell and told her that I admired her for her strength and that I knew that I couldn't do it and would never dream of putting myself into that situation. Thinking back I am sure that exact comment caused karma to put me where I am today, all I can say is thank god my program is only for a year. Needless to say I'll be back to start this all over again 4/10!

On the other hand I had ordered a notebook through dell.ca and it had finally arrived. It also has collected a weeks worth of dust as it proved to be too much of a distraction while studying. Now though I'm sure it will be a life saver with assignments and such through out the summer. It was a great deal and I love not being tied down; however, it too came with a few problems. I set up the wireless network and transferred most of my stuff of the home computer with no trouble at all. Then I proceeded to blow $49.99 on Microsoft Money as came packaged with my home computer 4 years ago as the deluxe edition me being an idiot assumed that the store edition had most of the features and an option to upgrade online....Wait for it.... The Canadian edition (which I bought) has no upgrade capability and in my opinion no useful features. So I blew $39.99 online and got quicken 2006 BASIC and it does exactly what I need. Finally after countless hours resetting all my financial information (and 1 late bill, but the greeds need not know that) it is up and running and everything else works great. If you're on the southside there is my coffee shop, Bogani's Cafe, it's great, the service, the coffee, just lacks on the hours. With my schedule 10:00 pm is too early to close, but they offer almost free wireless internet (only $5.00 for ... Well ever, until they realize that they are being short-changed for it anyways).

For today anyways...Back to work...

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