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Yay, Thursday was such an insane day. Wendsday evening at 5:00 I remembered that there is a registered letter for me at the post office which I couldn't pick up earlier becouse of Rememberence day(god my spelling sucks). Hmm, no surprise, it's from Emmanuel College(the college at cambridge I'm applying for). Hmm, no surprise it's the request for written work. Hmm, OH SHIT. It's due by the following wendsday. For those of you who have never sent mail over seas, let me explain your options:
1. Send via normal canada post. Pros: Cheap, Cons: Would arrive the wendsday AFTER it's required. Suffice to say not an option.
2. Send via express Canada Post. Pros: Faster, 5 day delivery. Cons: Costs about 50$, and would arrive wendsday, if I sent it on the day I recieved it. Not enough time to do my essay.
3. Send via Courier(I use purolator, which convieniently means they pick up from my house! :) ). Pro: Cheaper then express, arrive in 2->3 days. Cons: 44.20$ per package. Oh well, I've sent over 200$ worth of stuff with them now. Oh, and further pro: It's Person to person. If required they'll spend 2 hours hunting down the right person for you. this is also good, for instance when my packages lack any information except for the building and person to recieve it in what city :).
So yes, I missed school thursday to finish the essay off, and it isn't that bad for 23 hours of work. After a mad dash to the bank, I waved goodbye to the cute purolator girl(well, not really, but relative to the surly guy who'se attitude isn't helped by my making him wait 15 minutes), and then moped around.
Yay. So now I've got an interview which I'll find the exact date of later this month, hopefully soon because I've got to get my dad to buy tickets, suffice to say something that should not be left to the last minute. This also insidently means that I'll be unconcious for the interviews, it's -7 hours from here, so lets take the nice case, an early morning interview, 10 Am, that would be like 3 in the morning for me. No matter how you slice it, this is going to suck for sleep, becouse at best I have a late afternoon interview, for instance 5PM, thats still 10 in the morning for my system, with a low likelyhood of having apropriate sleep. Still gonna be lotsa fun though:)
Thats about it though, I gonna go make the weekend todo list, and then start tackling it one item at a time. Uhhg, monday I go back to taekwondo after a 2 1/2 week absence, if master chung doesn't kill me, being out of shape will.
-Simon
1. Send via normal canada post. Pros: Cheap, Cons: Would arrive the wendsday AFTER it's required. Suffice to say not an option.
2. Send via express Canada Post. Pros: Faster, 5 day delivery. Cons: Costs about 50$, and would arrive wendsday, if I sent it on the day I recieved it. Not enough time to do my essay.
3. Send via Courier(I use purolator, which convieniently means they pick up from my house! :) ). Pro: Cheaper then express, arrive in 2->3 days. Cons: 44.20$ per package. Oh well, I've sent over 200$ worth of stuff with them now. Oh, and further pro: It's Person to person. If required they'll spend 2 hours hunting down the right person for you. this is also good, for instance when my packages lack any information except for the building and person to recieve it in what city :).
So yes, I missed school thursday to finish the essay off, and it isn't that bad for 23 hours of work. After a mad dash to the bank, I waved goodbye to the cute purolator girl(well, not really, but relative to the surly guy who'se attitude isn't helped by my making him wait 15 minutes), and then moped around.
Yay. So now I've got an interview which I'll find the exact date of later this month, hopefully soon because I've got to get my dad to buy tickets, suffice to say something that should not be left to the last minute. This also insidently means that I'll be unconcious for the interviews, it's -7 hours from here, so lets take the nice case, an early morning interview, 10 Am, that would be like 3 in the morning for me. No matter how you slice it, this is going to suck for sleep, becouse at best I have a late afternoon interview, for instance 5PM, thats still 10 in the morning for my system, with a low likelyhood of having apropriate sleep. Still gonna be lotsa fun though:)
Thats about it though, I gonna go make the weekend todo list, and then start tackling it one item at a time. Uhhg, monday I go back to taekwondo after a 2 1/2 week absence, if master chung doesn't kill me, being out of shape will.
-Simon