The Last One.

I woke up from a dead sleep this morning after having a bad dream that I actually missed my presentation for today by sleeping in. I was up fairly late last night, until like 04:00 hours maybe more, I have such a lack of sleep. I managed to finally rise out of my bed and start the final touches on our presentation for retail marketing class. I try endlessly to get a quicktime movie file to work in PowerPoint. I try installing a few programs to convert the file. Nothing seems to work so I get the slides ready the best I can and send it to myself and head to campus to meet with my group. I'm already half and hour late.

I wait for the East Bank bus to arrive, I'm wearing the usual presentation get up of a dress shirt and khaki pants. The bus arrives and I go right to the back of the bus and lounge on the bench like seats with my legs spread apart and arms around the seats. The bus shakes back and forth as it trodes along, I look around at the people sitting near me and silently our eyes talk with one another but we don't say anything. When the bus finally arrives at the Gzowski college I get off and make my way downstairs to the cafe. I look around and can not see my group anywhere, I peer into the seminar rooms in the surrounding area and see them with our powerpoint up on the slides. Practicing here it seems, and I walk in. They all greet me and inform me that they actually got the quicktime movie to work in our PowerPoint. Perfect. "Ok I'll be right back." I said. I was so hungry. I walked up to the counter with a small milk. "Can I get a slice of pizza too please?"
She made a grimicing face, "... I wouldn't..."
"Bad eh?"
"Yeah, it's really old, I wouldn't sell it to you."
I pick up a small bag of Lays lightly salted chips instead because there really isn't much else at this cafe. Then go back to the seminar room. We have to change rooms cause a prof came in who had a class at the time we are using it. In the new seminar room I make some corrections in the language of the slides. They want to add in another slide and so I do this as well, but I did not have photoshop for the headers so the result was something half-ass.

We began a run through of our presentation and it all looks good. I get to my part, "Besides the new floor design of the flagship Blockbuster we also have some other recommendations base on what other competitors are doing. First they should partner with a sable or catellite company to bring an OnDemand service-" Karen starts laughing and I'm confused why. I run through the rest of my speech and it wasn't until later that she told me I mixed up cable and satellite.

We go into our seminar room and watch a presentation on Sport Mart. Kim Sanderson the TA for the course grilled the group with questions of advertising costs and renovation costs. Our group was taken aback and starting to get more nervous about presenting. One of our group members, Byrce, assured that he had it covered. When we finally got up there I sat down at the computer to click through the slides and the group presented until it was my part. Afterwards we got no questions from the TA. Then we got a question from the prof asking about bringing the home experience to Blockbuster... really odd question because it was something we did not talk about. We also got a question from this idiot Jacques (one of the only guys able to fail a Stephen Regoczei) course about the hardwood flooring we were implementing. Byrce said that we aren't actually using real hardwood, but the plastic kind that snaps in. I had no idea it existed. So when it was all over I think we achieved a great mark.

I went home and played some Magic The Gathering with my roommate Adam. I told him after the third game that I really wanted to go to the LCBO to pick up some wine. I call up my father and talk with him the whole way. I'm sort of missing being home but I realize that I have to stick it out and stay here to finish my school studies. I get into the LCBO and pick up a Kozelmel red. It doesn't look like a vintage wine, but I got it anyways. After picking up the wine I went over to Subway and got the special. The guy accidently put ham on it when it was just turkey day. I walked back towards my house taking bites out of my sub with the wrapping peeling off around the sub. After I finished it I stopped into Night Kitchen for a slice of pizza, they had my fav kind, feta cheese with greens. I sat down and had the pizza with a coke and looked outside. People walked past and glanced looks at me while continuing their muted conversations. I finish eating and return home. Open the bottle of wine and clean out a glass.

"Hey Ced, want a glass with me?" I ask.
"Yeah man, sure." He says and goes downstairs to get a clean glass.
I tell him that we have to wait awhile for it to chill. Emulated cellar temperature I like to call it. After it's done I really struggle with the cork because it appears to seem like it's going to rip in half. I managed to finally get it out in one peice and pour us some glasses. Cedric explains that he's sort of ignorant on how to taste wine. I personally am no expert, but I do know some advice. I explain to swirl it around and smell it so that to reconize the fruits and what have you. Then to take some in, and the sugary taste or bitter taste tell you about the wine. We head up to Rob's loft and take the bottle with us and enjoy the wine. I pop on the Jays game and Rob eventually comes upstairs with one of his group partners for a project. We all joke around and eventually the bottle of wine is finished.

Unfortunately the jays lost big time. But oh well, at least I completed the final presentation of my University career. It felt really good.