Oh. My. God.

Not meaning to offend anyone but I'm a little stunned here. I have to do a journal for my course, so I'm going to write it here, and well, you all can just cope with it. I'll use the old lj cut so that those of you who aren't interested don't have to worry about it. For those of you who don't want to read... nyah. You don't know what you're missing. ;)

So, anyway, Tuesday I went to work, and Tuesday evening was my first night at class. Orientation. Joy. We got Launch Week 2002 t-shirts, and all kinds of pieces of paper. Reading from here until next century. We had a guest speaker, and that's the topic of my first lj cut on this. Other than that, the Dean of the School spoke ad nauseum, and there was a panel of CEOs who were interesting to listen to. They all had different careers and different approaches, but what struck me was the common theme of hard work, making luck, and taking opportunities.

After the speech, we got separated into our teams - 6 people I'll be spending a good part of the next 4 months with. We also discovered that our first 2 assignments are due on Wednesday. Yes, that's right. Here we are in orientation, and we've already got over 200 pages to read, and pages to write. I'm still not sure what I've got myself into, but it was kind of electrifying.

( On Leadership )

Following ....

Today... Okay. Where do I start?

Up before the sun. Out of the house before Val was in the shower. In fact, I was on the road by about 6:50am. Had time to stop at Tim's to get coffee. Mmmmm, coffee.

Drove along the way too crowded highway. Even at that time of morning it gets to be stop and go. What is up with that. Got to the university and today too there was nobody to collect my money for parking. I'm not sure what's up with that, but I was late, or so I thought, so I ran for it, hoping against hope that I wouldn't get a ticket for not paying. It's hard to pay though when there's nobody to pay. I mean, who are you supposed to give the money to?

Anyway, I'm not going to go on that rant. Went over to the right parking lot, and found myself waiting with lots of others. Eventually we all got loaded up onto yellow school buses. Yes, that's right. Think way back to grade school folks. And of course, not everyone actually looked at their Launch week packages, so they didn't even notice the waiver forms we needed for today. Which meant that the staff didn't have enough of them. We waited a good hour for someone to take the forms and get them photocopied and then get back to the buses. It was not pretty.

Anyway, the buses headed out to some place which name I can't remember. Elgin Mills and Kennedy, I think. Somewhere in that area. It's a day camp, and there's a primary school there too. A farm. We did team building exercises all day.

( Team Building )

It was quite a day, to say the least.

Then back onto the buses and back to York. From there, the bookstore. I think I now have all my text books until January. Yay me? I hope so.

And after that? A hamburger in the courtyard, and home. No ticket on my car, which is good. I'm tired, and just about ready to sleep. So I probably won't be logged on for too long. Go figure. Next class is Saturday, as I might have said. So I have 2 days to absorb and relax a bit. Though I also have a 3 page case study to write up, which has to be emailed to my TA by Tuesday. Yay.

And One more thing...

I forgot to mention our team of 6 became 7.

Mike joined us today!