Archive for October, 2004

I nagged you, huh?

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

My son (see elliottback.com ) nagged me last night for an update so here it is! What do you say when you don’t think you have anything to say? I guess you say it so that readers can have the privilege of forming that judgment for themselves.

Ah, what a delightful textbook!

I purchased the softcover, imported from Singapore for half of the American price. Why oh why doesn’t a digitized copy come with textbooks today? There ought to be a public demand for the advantages of ”cut n’ paste” notetaking; ”easy highlighting” etc.

I’ve tried to keep my own copy of this text in pristine condition in the hopes of a quick resale after the course (providing they don’t change the text) but as the covers (soft, remember) have begun to crinkle and curl I suppose I might as well give in and ink it up a little.

Now, being new to blogging, I wonder, is rambling permissible within this genre? How about tangentiality? Overinclusiveness? Or, are all the sins of thought and speech fair game?

I took two days off this week to get re-fingerprinted for the final process of our I-485 (green card) petition and to get caught up in my reading and lectures for my accounting course www.biz.colostate.edu/mba/distance/distance.htm. A week’s worth of lecture arrives a few days after the Monday evening class at CSU and I am two weeks behind (including homework). Our group project has just been announced and I need a clean slate to begin with that on Monday. Sufficient to say ”TTFN.” I’ll deliver a progress report at the beginning of the week!

The First Post, Mmm….

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

I started the distance, MBA program at Colorado State University this fall. It seems that I’m always at least two weeks behind. By the rules that’s okay but by the heart it feels like chronic tardiness in getting to work, or like forever leaving home five minutes too late too catch the bus.

This week the subject is cost allocations and the related linear equations. So, while the weekend is here and while I am no longer on call through a sovereign act of kindness by my boss, I am committed by necessity to the thoroughly engaging prospect of study, study, study.

All grousing aside I have to admit that I do like it. I may even like it too much as the computer work gives me plenty of opportunity for slacking off with such momentary diversions as blogging and surfing!