The home stretch

Only two more weeks of school before finals are upon us. They will likely be very hectic.

I made some progress on the previously posted list that will help but this week and next will be a tremendous flurry of activity and will probably involve very little sleep. I only have two actual finals, which is nice, though they are in Corporate Finance and Accounting and will require quite a bit of study. Both classes are fairly straightforward, however, so I don't think they will present much of a problem.

We have a marketing project that is not due until May, but there is a possibility we will be called on this Wednesday to present our ideas so Tuesday will be spent doing prepwork and figuring out who will do what parts of the presentation.

Our final in Ops Management is a take home to do be done by our group. While the class is not my strongest suit, by group is tremendous and we work very well together so I think we will do well on that.

And of course the job search continues. I should be hearing back from Virtua this week. A "yes" would be a huge load off my shoulders and would give me a position that I believe I would actually enjoy.

I managed to play quite a bit of poker over break and did pretty well. I played in a few tournaments today on Party Poker and had very little luck. When you go all in, flop a straight, and then lose to a runner flush you know that it just was not your day. All told I think I played well and made very few mistakes. Granted I really couldn't make many mistakes because for the most part my cards were horrid. Generally speaking I win at least 10% of the hands I play (PP keeps the stats) and today I was at around half of that. But such is life.

I played in a tourney today where the grand prize is an Escalade, and they are running another tournament in a few weeks (conveniently after finals.) All you need to do is place in the top 250 in a qualifier and you're in. Doing so was painfully easy. So we'll give the Caddy (or more likely its cash equivalent) another go in a little while and hopefully some cards will fall my way.

I played in a few cash games as well and am up about $50 to date. The quality of play on PP is generally not good and if you're patient you can take advantage of that.

Well, back to CorpFin homework and the small, very tasty glass of Azul reposada tequila I'm enjoying. Hopefully it will help lull me to sleep in a few hours.