Monthly Archive for April, 2008

As of 5:15pm, I officially completed my MBA program.

I emailed my final exam paper in for my final course and can feel good on Saturday when I walk at graduation that I did it. I really did it. And with honors to boot.

I thought I was going to cry when it was all over or that the feeling of relief would wash over me as the realization of this achievement came true. Instead, nothing’s too different. I’m tired, exhausted and just want to sleep.

Too much to do before graduation on Saturday. And that freakin’ party is stressing me out. When do I get to enjoy this?!?!?!

Finishing my MBA program is the best news of the day, but a very close second is that my Mom is back from Taiwan! Yay! I worked from 8am to 8pm today (trying to get some stuff done for clients) and headed to LAX to pick her up. Unfortunately, her flight was totally late and so I ended up circling LAX arrivals 7 times before I gave up and pulled over to park. I was so tired I could barely keep my eyes open. I probably shouldn’t have been driving. As soon as I parked, my Mom called my phone saying that she had cleared customs and would meet me at the curb.

Anyway, she’s at our place now, and I’m trying to figure out what I have to do tonight before the craziness of tomorrow.

I’m still in disbelief… I DID IT! I REALLY DID IT!

… the embarrassing loss of the Bruins to Memphis at tonight’s Final Four game

and

… the loss of the EB on this trip. He is missing. We don’t know where he is. Last we heard, he was in Dallas. He was supposed to meet us in San Antonio, but he missed his flight from Baltimore and got stuck on standby and missed the Final Four games. Doh. Hoping he gets in tomorrow.

I liveblogged to L.A. Metblogs in my post entitled broken hearted bruin girl in san antonio but was having technical difficulties. Check this out:

April 5th, 2008 @ 6:24 PM Sports

[Un-editors note: Joz is apparently live blogging from the UCLA game in San Antonio, but is restricted to using the comments due to her use of a PDA. -Markland]

UPDATE 4/6/08 @ 12:34am CT: Sorry for all the wonkiness with my post today. I attempted to liveblog from the Alamodome via PDA from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four games, but my PDA only posted my title and not the content of the post. I started pecking away at my post during the second half of the UCLA/Memphis game, when it was pretty clear that the Bruins were not going to be advancing. We held out hope, but it was futile.

It turned out that I could leave comments via PDA, so I tried to continue blogging during the Kansas/North Carolina game.

Final scores:
(3) UCLA: 63
(2) Memphis: 78

(4) Kansas: 84
(1) North Carolina: 66

For those of us who were hoping to celebrate a UCLA championship here in San Antonio, we are disappointed with the results of this game. I’m back at my hotel room, having some booze to sooth the pain.

COMMENTS I MADE:
1. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:35 pm
since i am sitting in the alamodome watching the second of the final four games I thought i’d attempt to blog via pda. don’t know what happened to my post. more later but there are a lot of bummed ucla fans here with me.

2. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 6:43 pm
can I just say that I certainly feel for the tarheel fans here right now? the score with 5 minutes left in the first half is 40-12; kansas is on fire.

dude, at least the bruins were only 3 points behind at half time.

needless to say the jayhawks fans are going bezerk here.

3. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:15 pm
thanks to markland for the un-editor’s note. I had pecked out a post abt the ucla / memphis game which got eaten by the blog monsters. sorries for this!

until the misery of ucla losing in the semi-finals today, everyone in san antonio was full of excitement.

one funny side note is that all 4 teams in the final four have some shade of blue as a team color. the alamodome is a sea of blues but the blues i’ve got are the bruins making it this far and not winning the ncaa men’s basketball championship.

isn’t the third time supposed to be a charm? where was the bruin team i’ve cheered on all season and through march madness? wasn’t kevin love supposed to get a championship before going off to the nba?

my favorite bruin t-shirt features ‘the prince’ with the number 23 on the back, the words ‘moute kicks boute’ on the front. unfortunately today, moute did not kick any boute. in fact his boute was pwned.

oh my boys.

why do I let you break my heart like this year after year?

will I ever learn?

or wil you guys finally redeem yourselves and bring the championship back to westwood one of these years?

a bruin girl can keep wishing, I guess…

until then, are there any bruin fans in san antonio who need a drink or two to drown your sorrows? cuz that’s what i’m thinking I need.

4. jozjozjoz (la_joz) April 5th, 2008 7:42 pm
on the bright side I am enjoying the north carolina / kansas game a lot more now that unc has made up much of its deficit in the second half and is within 5 points of kansas with 9 minutes left to play.

that and because we moved away from the annoying fans we were next to.

hey we are all here to root for our teams, lady. you don’t need to be quite so loud in my ear and you can sit down in your seat once in a while cuz that’s kind of what it’s for. other people kind of want to watch the game, too.

That’s the goal for the next 20 minutes, anyway.

Sorry if I don’t make any sense. I’m a little sleep-deprived and I’ve been a little stressed out.

Right now I’m sitting in a terminal at LAX waiting for our red eye flight which is going to take us to San Antonio, Texas. Holy cow! I didn’t think I’d be going to Texas willingly anytime soon!

I think I mentioned that we’re heading to the Men’s Basketball Final Four & Championship games this weekend. It all came about really suddenly, so this week has been nutz. Thanks to Yoshi who packed for me and put up with my anxiety all day and night today. I was a little freaked out and had a lot on my mind today and I was taking it out on Yoshi, so that was pretty sucky of me.

I have been crazy busy for a while, so I hope the twitter updates are giving you an insight into what’s been going on in my life.

Big news which I can’t remember if I posted about, so here it goes: I am officially done with classes for my final course in my MBA program! Last night, my Strategy class got together for the last time and it was awesome but also bittersweet. I made some good friends in this class but at the same time, I’m really glad to have finished this chapter of my life. I still have one last 5 page paper to write and submit via email, but hopefully I can bang that out pretty quickly.

What else?

I don’t know! I’m exhausted right now but I’m not allowed to sleep until we get on our plane.

Oh I know!

Graduation is a week away! For anyone who is wondering where the party is, I have finally secured the location. I promise to update the evite with the address of the TOP SECRET LOCATION of the party this weekend. Sorry to everyone who has been IMing, calling, emailing and asking for details. I swear the deets are coming!

So while I’m on this trip, I’ll probably be twittering and flickring from my iPhone, so if I’m not updating here, you might want to check those feeds out for the latest.

To my taller brother:

I love you to bits and bits and I’m so proud of you.

Happy birthday and I’ll see you at the Alamo this weekend for the FINAL FOUR!!!

PS – I loved talking to you on the phone tonight. You’re the best.