Lynne Wiora's Homework #2

Homework Assignment #2

CHICAGO, IL -
At approximately 12:05 PM on Saturday, September 15, 2001, Lynne Wiora, a graduate student at DePaul University, received a call from her roommate, Nadine Remington, a recent graduate of the same school. The two had just moved into a new apartment, and unpacking and organizing the new space was, according to Ms. Wiora, "not moving forward" as she had hoped. In this call, Ms. Remington related to Ms. Wiora that she had been unable to connect to the Internet from their phone line after having attempted to do so several times. This amused

Ms. Wiora because she had been trying to "pull the apartment together" during the day preceding this incident, and was hoping Ms. Remington would continue the work on this particular day. Ms. Wiora was unable to continue the project herself due to obligations to her MIS 682 coursework, as well her Options and Futures class. Ms. Remington even went so far as to suggest that Ms. Wiora had "done something" to the computer so that she would not be able to access playsite.com to play spades and euchre. When asked to respond to these accusations, Ms. Wiora simply stated that she had "thought about doing something...maybe taking the phone cord with me...so that she wouldn't be able to connect," but had forgotten to do so. While this event has not yet come to a conclusion, Ms. Wiora clearly has high hopes for its eventual outcome. "I am just hoping that this occurrence will at least end in some progress in the new apartment." *Note: I know that the assignment was to write about something regarding the class, but this occurred while I was completing my assignment and struck me as, no offense, more interesting. I'm sure everyone else will also find it fascinating. (See #10 on my top ten list.)

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What is your MBA concentration?
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How would you rate my progress in this course compared to your own?
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Which of the following celebrities would you like to never have to see/hear again?
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How are you doing today?

OK...since this is my space, I guess I can use it to vent on a couple of things (not very significant ones) that bother me. Has anyone else been horrified by all of the black-roots-blonde-ends hair that's been showing up lately? I think it's driving me insane. I mean, I know that I tend to be lazy, so if I had dark hair, I surely wouldn't bleach it because I know that I wouldn't keep it up. Why don't people realize this before they start the vicious cycle of "now I'm a blonde, now I'm a brunette"? Sorry...it just bugs me.

Another thing that's been getting on my nerves is Cubs fans. Now, I'm automatically biased because I live on the North Side (Central Lakeview) and live a block from the park, so I apologize in advance if I offend anyone. However, I can't imagine how those same people who attend the games would react if people came into their neighborhoods for a few nights every other week or so and acted like drunk idiots. But, like I said, it's my neighborhood, so I might be a little sensitive.

The top ten useful hints I'd like to share with you:

SAVE, SAVE, SAVE. As often as you can, whenever you can...because as soon as you get something accomplished, either your computer or your network will turn against you.

Four years is a LOOOOOOONG time to have certain people leading certain countries.

At DePaul, the classes that you want will be offered. And they'll all be offered on the same night during the same quarter.

The CTA, for all its shortcomings, will get you almost anywhere you need to go. It just may take a while.

If you want your nails to grow, they won't; if you don't, they will. This also applies to your hair.

If you're running early, your train, bus, what have you, will be on time or early. If you're running late, it will make you even later.

If you need an item of clothing, don't bother looking for it. The store will only carry twenty of that item...in only two sizes. Ten will be way too small, and the rest will be way too large.

Free food tastes better.

Very few movies are worth spending $9 to see.

No one will ever find your stories as hilarious as you do.

Send me e-mail.