I am brimming with excitement. There is a mere eight more days until I will have been moved back into my sweet corner room in the University of Waterloo residences. I am so unbelievably psyched to be getting back on campus, especially for those sweet summer months. I’m excited about my classes and I’m excited about moving out of my house (again).

I’ve still got to get textbooks. I’m hoping the campus bookstore will not be as bad during the summer, so I’m thinking I’ll leave it until the 30th. Also, I wanted to get my books in one trip. There are two problems with this:

1. One of my courses, ENGL 108M, does not have a professor attached to it yet (apparently). With no professor attached, there is no selected booklist. So, I have no idea what to buy for it, and I’m not going to throw money away buying last terms booklist.

2. I talked to Andrew a little while ago about buying his CS134 textbook from him, but he has been incommunicado since then. I don’t know where he is. And I could have sworn I e-mailed him. But he has yet to reply. (While writing this, I checked my Sent Mail folder on Gmail and did not see the follow-up message I tried to send Andrew after he didn’t show up on MSN. It turns out that the message was never sent (likely due to my shitty internet flaking out), and it is sitting in my Drafts folder)

So, until both those things get sorted out, I’m abstaining from book buying.

There is one thing that concerns my about going back to the University of Waterloo…and that is the fact that I may be removed from the co-op program. Last term, I did not finish PD1 on time because I was frantically worrying about exams (read: important work). This year, I finished PD1 (with much suffering) and PD2, submitting my report on my experience writing reports as a report writer.

The marks for PD2 were finally calculated on April 20th. So, I rush onto UW-ACE to check my progress. I see a 0%. I do not think there is anything wrong with this at first. Maybe they have taken a while to get them up. But nope. The final marks are calculated. For the course. So surely my report must be marked.

I’d submitted my report twice. The first one was a rushed job. I read it over and did some minor tweaking before resubmitting it. The day after I submitted it, the first copy was marked zero. I assumed this was done so that no one would waste their time marking a useless report. But to this day, my revised report remains unmarked. I can only assume that I did not fail it. I would at least deserve some sort of commentary or assessment if that were the case.

No. It seems that these people do not care about my future in the co-op program (if I fail PD2, I’m out of co-op). So, they just threw my report into some dustbin somewhere, and neglected it. I still cannot fathom how such a stupid program can hold so much power over my future.

But…oh well.

In other news, I’m almost done acquiring Maya and 3ds Max through legitimate avenues that I prefer not to disclose. I figured the first thing that I would try doing is downloading those ripped Twilight Princess models that have been floating around, and animate a fight between Link and Ganondorf. This way, I’m starting off understanding basic movements, without having to actually design the models or textures by myself. And I will work backwards from that point.