So, I’m taking this marketing class right now. There was a huge project due in it today. It’s worth 50% of our mark with the presentation component. We got an early start on it of course, but somehow when it came time to hand it in, it wasn’t finished.

This led to the staple of an experience for a university student: the all nighter.

I personally don’t like to do these events, because I really like sleep. I mean, I love sleep. And when I’m tired and bored, the first thing I do is take a nap. Seriously, I like naps. But, with so many marks and the fate of 5 of my group members lying in my hands, I began shortly after my house team volleyball game on redoing our references. And redoing them. And more. More. Still. 4 hours later and approaching 2am, there was an end in sight: to references, all 5 pages of them, seriously, size 8 font, 5 pages o__O;;

By this moment, when you’ve already missed on a lot of sleep the night before, things start to get funny. At least they do for me. I mean, I start to find the most stupid thing hilarious. It’s kind of bad.

After finishing, I took a trip to meet with Sahir, who’s in my group and I’ve known since 1st year. He was also working on his 220 project, which is worth like 60% of the course mark. Good times. We sat in DC with another one of his friends, and I swear to god the most inane things got funnier and funnier by the moment. We discussed group members, typos, chocolate bars, snickers vs mars, projects, formatting; all while “killing shit” as the formatting or something would go horribly wrong while fixing stuff in Word.

Oh yeah, at this point I’ve also felt like I achieved some effing zen moment with Microsoft Word. I was on a roll. I figured out how to do proper references, auto-generate a table of contents (I mean, this was like epic), and ok, get this: 3 years into my university career I’ve figured out how to start the page numbers not on page 1. I kid you not. For 3 years I wrote my title pages and table of contents and executive summaries separate just to avoid this problem. I think Word and me are kinda tight now, werd!

Tim Horton’s hot chocolate at 4am is shitty. I don’t know why, but it is. Would not buy again

By 7am, I finally got to printing the work. It was beautiful. I think I shed a tear. I just shed a tear again as my browser reminded me that I was about to misspell beautiful, that’s just not acceptable.

So there you go. It was a long night. It was a hard night. But the project got done. I believe my group owes me food or sleep. Since I don’t want any of them sleeping with me or using chloroform in any way, I will take food. Mmmmm….

It’s like 1:30am. I’m trying to finish laundry. I am sooooo tired from the last few nights of fire alarms, prank phone calls, prank door buzzers and people playing football in a snowstorm outside of my windows. Tomorrow is a big day. I have a Public Speaking class persuasive speech to deliver. I am actually really looking forward to it, but it took me a long time to pick what topic I wanted to do and I don’t feel as ready as I’d hoped I would be at this point.

I think I’m going to take tomorrow morning off from another class and polish this speech, it’s 35% of my mark in that course and I actually feel like I want it to be meaningful beyond just that mark. Maybe I’ll try and post it at some point, who knows, I like to improvise so much during speeches that it may not even be what I end up delivering XD

It was Alice’s birthday recently, for those of you that read and know her, hint, hint.

Oh, we played another volleyball game with our floor team today. We were off to a rough start as we’ve not played since before reading week. Amazingly we’ve had the most people out since the first game and actually had two people to rotate, which made things easier. The game was in a different gym though and there were games all around and we kept having to restart because a stray ball would end up in my or my teammates feet, annoying. The coolest thing though is that Yuichi, who was my Japanese TA, was playing on our opponents team. I gotta say he’s really, really good and a lot of times when I thought we totally had a point, he’d run out from the other side of the court and somehow get it in this amazing one hand dive. It definitely made me be like “Ok, Sergey, you gotta step it up. Don’t suck!” — which was a lot of fun. We had this amazingly long rally where I think the ball went over at least 10 times and we finally, finally got the point after a lot of effort.

As is true of our team, we lost the first set. I think we spent more of it remembering how to play and talking to each other, haha, we’re so pro! The second set we were definitely down, but then we came together and squeaked in a 26-24 victory, tight. There was a lot of cheering, high fiving, double high fiving and general celebration In the 3rd and deciding set we started off really well by losing our serve and going down 8 to 10, then 8 to 12 then 9 to 14. Oh this was going to be rough. But in true team “as long as it’s over” style we managed to put off screwing up a serve or losing a point and brought it all together with a one point win!

Oh well, I should run and take a shower now. I’m pretty sure I smell. And then of course I’ll feel wide awake when I actually need to be sleep. Sigh to that. Cya!