Project Management - Special People

This term we have to take a course of Project Management and the two lecturers we have a very special to say the least (and not in a good way). Obviously I understand the importance of having a good project manager, whatever it is you're doing. But what I don't understand is how you can even attempt to teach anything that is just common sense!! where it is evident that some people can do it and some can't!! and then there are people who can do it but don't want to because it must be the most tedious thing in the world. It just pisses me off that I'm required to attend 70% of these lectures when I can spend those 4 hours a week doing something so much more worthwhile.

Suprise?

I've been spending the last 10 days trying to sort out my research model as something went wrong with it and I couldn't get it back to how it was. It's been frustrating me and the longer it went without being fixed, the more i decided to not bother with it anymore... (stupid seeing as I need to get it done sooner rather than later). Anyway, yesterday I though I'd have another go and after just an hour or so I was so angry with it not working that I was on the brink of giving up... when I saw a type-o! Could this have been what was causing the problem? I sorted it out, ran it and voila!! It works. So obviously I'm happy that it works but this also means that I spent the last 10 days trying to fix this thing when all it was was a type-o, and had I read through it carefully to begin with I could have saved myself a whole lot of time. Aahhhrrrggg!!!!

But seeing as it's fixed my motivation is slightly on the up and I hope I'll get more done this week than last. My aim is to have the model done by the end of this month :) Over optimistic, maybe... impossible, definitely not!

No turning back

So I've signed up for Cancer Research UK's race for life this summer.

10 km on the 31st July!!

Help sponsor me and donate some money on:

www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/catariyalundgren

Even the tiniest amounts will do some good :)

Things are heating up

Uni's getting busier and I'm starting to feel the stress. I not sure what else to write other than that... all these deadlines!!! I just don't know if human beings are capable of working so much when there are only 24 hours in one day. Hhhhmmm I guess the "one day at the time" policy is the way to go here, without forgetting the planning ahead bit.

A new start?

Well, my 14 days of "kick-start" dieting is over... I must say that it wasn't nearly as difficult as I thought it would be. But it did much more than a diet... it made me realise that it's just about being a little bit more sensible. Last weekend I was a t a baby shower in Eastbourne and the weekend just passed was spent in Wickwar, so I guess it's safe to say that the diet was more of a week day thing for me. But despite of my weekend mess-ups I've lost 2.5 kg in 2 weeks and I think it's completely down to less snacking on unhealthy things. During the 2 weeks I've been following these rules with some minor leeway:

1) No sugar

2) No alcohol

3) No wheat

4) No dairy

5) No carbs (after 6 pm)

So 2.5 kg in 2 weeks, not bad I say. Obviously this diet was only intended for 2 weeks and from now on I'll be adding some food extras to my meals but I will also start training for the 10 km run that I've signed up for this summer so hopefully by summer or graduation I'll be where I want to be :) Saying that though, I went for a swim today and almost died after 1 km.... We'll see how it goes but I remain positive and undefeated!

Off to Wickwar!

Woop woop :) I love getting away from London over the weekend. There's nothing like a bit of fresh country side air! Be back Monday, have a nice weekend :)

Isis Adventure

It's Toby's birthday today but we gave him all his presents yesterday. I got him this puzzle called the Isis Adventure which is supposedly the hardest puzzle in the world... i think there are harder ones but that remains to be seen. We spent a couple of hours yesterday deciphering the clues so that we could start solving the puzzle and that went ok, so now we just have to figure out what they actually mean. Apparently you can win £10,000 if you solve it...

Today we're having nice steak at home for dinner and then going out for a bit i think, and this weekend we're gonna go down to Wickwar to have a little birthday celebration there with his family :) I can't believe we're both 23 now... I can still remember when we'd just met when we were 18... haha, that was a long time ago :) but we've had some very good birthdays with each other.

4 years ago :)