Liveblogging is all the rage amongst the sports bloggerati, so I'm going to liveblog my afternoon in the library.
2:32 - Mandarin oranges are my favorite 'exotic' fruit. This is a taste which harkens back to the days of giant steel tubs of them in the lunch line at RRHS on "Oriental Food Day." Woof... as if calling it "Oriental Food Day" was bad enough, the selections were usually chop suey, chop suey noodles, rice, and mandarin oranges.
2:48 - I'm down to the dregs of my salad and getting into the nitty-gritty formatting of draft 1 of our STRAT 669 paper about Yahoo!.
2:54 - Just heard a mobile phone ring from across Kresge 4... rules are rules, people, and this is a silent floor. Anyway, why would you have both (a) your ringer turned to 11 and (b) a cartoon theme song ringtone?
3:09 - MSWord is bringing me down. How can this be the best word processor out there? Probably it isn't, which begs the question: why are we using?
3:24 - Little study break gives me time to edit and upload this picture from last night's 6-5 Tigers win over Kansas City.
3:53 - Intense formatting happening; collecting parts of a paper from three.5 people is a good way to get it written but not a good way to get formatting out of the way early.
4:05 - Time is flying past and I can't make Word work fast enough... my kingdom for a mouse.
4:24 - As if in a dream I've got it! Industry Analysis, Competitive Positioning, Competitive Strategy, Strategy Recommendations. This is a beautifully-flowing, concise, complete framework for each section of the report. Now we're cooking with gas.
4:44 - I'm ghost writing a conclusion that I'm hopeful will be approved by teammates. It's hard to make a case for anything in eight pages these days; I miss engineering school where you can generally sum things up with a single equation or inequality.
4:46 - Just remembered that my phone is in my pocket and 'vibrate' doesn't work unless the thing is vertical. To my shock and dismay I missed two calls, one of which was Jenelle saying that her day o' testing is over. Perhaps that means my day o'librarying is over, too.
4:52 - Yip. I'm out. My labors will now be done at home, with distractions more numerous than a roomful of BBAs.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007