Woohoo!!!!

85% in managerial accounting!!! Stress really does pay off. Too bad it was so ridiculously easy that it angered me more than anything else. I could have easily scored 100% (or at least in the high 90’s) if I wasn’t so wrapped up in trying to study everything. Turns out the main questions were EXACTLY like the homework problems. Down to the last number. Even so, I did blank out a lot (common cramming side effect) which caused more than a little panic. But hey, an 85 is an A and I’m cool with that.

To conclude before I drift off to La La Land—-I Know You Want Me is stuck in my head. I’m making a QR 1.00 bet with myself that I’ll wake up with it still on repeat.

Casio fx-115MS S-V.P.A.M

That’s apparently the type of calculator I’m using. I have no idea what to even call this post, so I’m sticking with that.

I’ve got a busy, busy week this week. I got a midterm in managerial accounting and I’m not looking forward to it one little bit. To be honest, it’s not that hard. Accounting I and II were substantially more difficult, especially II. It’s just that there’s these things you have to do with the numbers and, for the most part, I don’t understand why you do them. I guess I’m just going to have to memorize what I can and regurgitate. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get through it with a decent grade.

I just felt bad because I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been too preoccupied with college and stuff to do much blogging. However, because I don’t have much to say at the moment, I’ll leave you with this little tidbit:

Yesterday, I decided to use StumbleUpon as a temporary time-killer between studying and happened on these superifically unbelievable mouth-watering beauties. Too awesome, I tell you.  Remember in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory—-how Willy Wonka managed to discover a way where you could reach into the television to try out an advertised candy bar? I freaking wish the Internet worked the same way.

Who Wants a Rib Cage Implant?

College starts again tomorrow after a pretty awesome 2-month vacation. I’m actually excited

This is the official start of my last semester at CNA-Q. Here’s to hoping it’ll be the best!!!

Woot!

I went to college to register today. I’m on my final five courses—-yay!!! If all goes as planned, I’ll have graduated by December. WOOHOO!!!!

Because it’s tradition y’all, they put me in for my work term. Again. They almost always have to put me in for stuff I’ve already done or courses I’d already taken. I had it fixed right away though with my instructional coordinator—-who is probably one of the sweetest women ever. I’d list what I’m taking but, honestly, I don’t remember them all. I’ll edit this post later or maybe I’ll figure out that no one really cares

Oh, and concerning the debacle with my work term papers…my boss sent me scans of the employer evaluation (twice) and then he also sent a copy to my dad, who sent them to me. So I’ve got three copies of the evaluation in my inbox, so it’s good to know that he’s very efficient. I sent them again to the lady at the registrar’s office and she, to my joy, sent me an e-mail back congratulating me for passing my work term. And to that I say, “WOOT!”

I might talk more about registration day later—-for now the sun has set and I may EAT! (Actually, I can go for a while longer without eating. Ramadan was never difficult because of the lack of food. It’s the lack of water that gets to me. Especially since I spent a lot of my morning/early afternoon outside).

*Waves good-bye and skips away*

College is a Pain (Again)

Remember when the registrar’s office called me and told me my work term papers weren’t complete?

Well I forgot about the Ramadan timings, and since I’ve been staying up ’til 6:00 a.m. and waking up at 3:00 or 4:00, I’d forget to try to lug myself out of bed earlier to call my former workplace. They close at 2:00 p.m. So today I wake up at around 1:15 and gave them a ring when I noticed that the e-mail I sent didn’t get a reply. The secretary’s voice was all sing-songy and happy when she heard me. (I used to sit with her and talk for a while when I was waiting to see my boss, who was also the Administration and Finance Manager, and thus friggin’ busy most of the time). My boss also spent lots of time asking about me, my family and if I traveled or not. Hehe, such is the Lebanese way—–and generally the Arab way.

Anyways, to get to it, I told him that my college called me and told me that the employer evaluation form wasn’t sent. He was shocked and said that he had filled it out and sent it the day after I told him when the deadline was. He said it was very odd that they didn’t receive it. I believe him—–he was very good about everything else work term-related and the fact my college isn’t extremely well-known for its ability to be very organized plays a big factor into why they may have lost it. I sighed inwardly and apologized for the inconvenience but told him to please try to find it again and send it to me. I figure I’ll print it out myself and hand it in personally either tomorrow during registration or when college starts again on the sixth.

Anyways, I’m gonna go downstairs and busy myself with something. I’m SO freaking thirsty right now, it’s insane. My mouth feels like cotton.

Ciao!

Grrr…

I got a phone call at around noon today—-or rather yesterday—-from the registrar’s office. The lady on the other end informed me that my work term papers were not complete.

Why it took them this long to tell me this is not something I’ll pretend to understand.

Anyways, she told me that they didn’t have the employer evaluation form. This is the form that my boss/supervisor was supposed to fill out after I was finished with my term. It’s like “grading” my performance.

I had sent the evaluation form to my boss ages ago. I had also come up to him personally to tell him about it and when he should send it to my work term coordinator. He told me sincerely that I had nothing to worry about and he’d take care of it.

Either he did and something went wrong with the sending of the form…or he forgot about it somehow. I’m going to have to call him on Saturday to get it all sorted out.

Le sigh.

Wa Uh-Oh Uh-Oh-Oh Uh-Oh-Oh HEY BEAUTIFUL!!

I’m DONE with my WORK TERM!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!

*Celebrates with much enthusiasm with a side order of glee*

WOOT!!!!

   

FLIES!

I’m at work, but I’m working on a report that’s due tomorrow instead. It’s pretty peaceful and I’m reading and highlighting stuff in the articles I’m going to be using in my report.

But there are two flies in here and they are making my life a bit difficult. Why they seem to find my head so fun to fly around is beyond me.

ARGH!!

I’m Sitting Down Here But Hey You Can’t See Me…

I have finally embarked upon my first day at ‘work’.

And…well…I’m bored out of my head. My supervisor was told to introduce me to the programs and software that HR uses. So he introduced me to the payroll software.

That tutorial was quite interesting. Not too hard to understand either. But now he doesn’t know what else to teach me. He left me with the program and told me to go through it.

I did.

Now I’m writing this. I’ve had nothing to do for the past half hour.

What am I supposed to do now? I don’t get to go to college for at least a couple more hours…

ETA: It’s now 10:19 in the morning. I’ve been here since 8:55. All I got was a 15-minute tutorial. I’m gonna go see if there’s friggin’ anything they can have me do because I’m fidgeting a LOT. I’m in a small trailer office kind of thing—-I have my own desk and computer and everything, which is cool. But there’s NOTHING to do! If they can’t give me something new to learn or work with for now I’m gonna just start on my report for the one class I’m taking…

ETA #2: It is now 10:57. The supervisor came back and delved a bit deeper into the program. Now I can look up employee histories. He then gave me some photocopies of people’s visas and I updated their expiry dates via the software. That took a few minutes and it wasn’t too bad. Other than that, this guy has no idea what to do with me. I have no idea what to tell him. I’ll give it ’til 11:30 and if there’s honestly nothing for me to do I’m heading out.

Heh, at one point I started playing with the stamps on my desk to see what they said. Then I hole-punched all my papers. (I had simply kept them in the folder pocket of my binder). Now I’m playing word games online. GIVE ME SOMETHING TO DO, DAMMIT!

This is not a good start. I have to endure five weeks of this?!

Double-U Tee

Heh, I can’t believe I’m already well into my third week of college and I still haven’t seriously started my work term yet.

The way it works, is that I was supposed to attend a work term orientation. People who attend learn a bunch of stuff, and then they write up CV’s and send them to the work term coordinator (a lady named Wafaa), who then sends them out to companies. This basically concludes in us ’working’ (or rather, ’training’) for four to five weeks.

I did attend an orientation, only I did that in Fall 2008 (in October or November). At that time, they had scheduled me to take it in Winter 2009 (starting January). I realized that I didn’t want to do it in Winter so I asked if I could postpone it to Intersession, and they said fine.

But now there seems to have been some weird miscommunication. I sent in my CV and recieved confirmation that it was recieved. Then the lady who temporarily replaced Wafaa (who was out of the country) called me up and said she didn’t get anything from me. Mind you this is the same lady who sent me the email confirmation. Needless to say, I was slightly irritated and very confused. However, no biggie, I sent it again. I waited around and recieved no response at all.

So I go in and see Wafaa, who is probably one of the nicest ladies ever. She called a contact of hers at the Marriott hotel and soon I had an interview scheduled. I went, and the interview was fine—-nothing mind boggling—-but she had no spaces for trainees in HR. She said she might place me in the marketing department, and that she’d get back to me the next day. The ‘next day’ was yesterday. No call.

So today,  I called her. She said she couldn’t get back to me yesterday because of meetings and whatnot and then she told me she had no spaces in marketing either, because the marketing supervisor person was going on vacation and yaddy yaddy yadda, so the result was that I still had nowhere to do my work term.

Because my dad is awesome, he volunteered to help find me someplace to work in. I checked in with Wafaa to see if that was okay and she looked like I handed her a box of chocolates with a pretty ribbon coupled with free spa coupon. Or something. She’s seriously sweet, and called me a very ‘positive’ person because I wasn’t fighting and generally ticked off at her. (This whole thing is kind of her doing, since she seemed to misunderstand that I was in for my work term this semester. I kinda fell through the cracks, so to speak. So did quite a few other students, sadly). But I could see she was seriously trying her best and I couldn’t be mad even if I wanted to.

Anyways, my dad’s going to try to set me up with another company he knows, and we’ll see how that goes. I can’t work there unless Wafaa also goes and gives her approval. But at least we’ll be getting somewhere…I hope.