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[May. 7th, 2009|07:45 am] |
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| |  tired | ] |
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| | She's Always A Woman, Billy Joel | ] |
It's probably not a good sign when I wake up tired, is it?
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[May. 7th, 2009|02:25 pm] |
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| |  stressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mandy, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes | ] |
I think part of why I'm tired is that I'm fairly stressed. Yes, stress is a part of life, but that doesn't mean I have to like that it is.
Work is chaotic, too many things to do, too little time, sometimes too little communication between the people that want things.
Databases is frustrating; I'm not terribly good at it, and this seems to disappoint the lecturer ("I can't believe you only got 85%!"). Also the fact that Semps got 94 and spent the entire evening whining about it didn't help; or the fact that the other guys got 100 and 101 respectively. Also also that when I try and go to the tute to work on the tasks, he's much more interested in chatting with those who already know how to do it about random stuff instead of helping those who are struggling (though I probably could more actively ask for help). Oh, and the next assignment is supposed to be a group task that those three have banded together for. Whee!
PMP, on the other hand, is typified by the following:
Chris S: PERT Charts are wonderful and useful and brilliant! There are only two reasons that they aren't used any more: One, that they're too big to print, and two, that Microsoft Project does them so badly!
Student: If MS Project can't do PERT charts, what can?
Chris S: I have no idea.
Student body: ...
I've found an open source alternative to MS Project that claims to be able to create PERT charts, which I'm hoping does as well as or better than MS Project. Assuming I can get the damn thing to run - it installed happily but then complained I didn't have some specific version of JRE installed (which doesn't strike me as a good sign).
I get it, planning is good. I have a feeling I'm going to commit murder before I finish the assignment, since I really can't translate it at all. Most of it seems to be database definition.
Does anyone have Visio? Aman sent me his translation of the PERT process, but unfortunately it was a bunch of DOCX's accompanied by a couple of Visio diagrams. I found a copy of Word 2007 to open and print the DOCXs, but now I have some Visio diagrams sitting there taunting me...
Meanwhile, having already done the content Photography is covering, I'm doing well in that - but they do things ever so slightly differently to what I was taught, so I have to resist the temptation to run ahead. Sigh.
And now to play around with that open source app for a bit then maybe try and do some DBP without screaming. I make no guarantees.
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[May. 7th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
| [ | mood |
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| | I Am A Rock, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes | ] |
Last night, after class, I visited EGG for a little while. Chicken Slayer was running a game of Hollow Earth Expedition.
Chicken Slayer: Okay, you have sold your ship for 21 sterling silver pieces.
Player that I don't know the name of: What does that translate to in local money?
Rel: It's lazy GM money.
Chicken Slayer: ...Basically. You don't have enough money to buy everything you want.
Oh dear.
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