It’s 8:35 pm right now and I’ve done nothing the whole day. Well, I attended the guest speaker session for ACC 611 today, but that’s about it. Instead, I spent the whole day fucking around in the kitchen, taking mediocre photos of my food, eating too much, and half-watching the Olympics with my dad.
As the days get closer to leaving for Waterloo, I find myself pre-emptively missing my parents. Even though I didn’t spend much time with them, and even though just a week ago I was counting down the time until I could live on my own again (and with Kevin), I’m now sad at the prospect of having to leave them again.
While I guess I had a pretty chill day, I couldn’t fully enjoy myself because in the back of my mind I was constantly feeling guilty, feeling anxious because I was wasting the precious time I had to catch up… ending with me having another small breakdown here at 8:35. But I cried for about a minute, then I said, NO, NO, NO, I’M GETTING UP, I’M DOING THIS, I know I’ll have to sleep in about an hour, but I’M GOING TO STUDY. And fuck the fact that I wasted a day of potential study time today, shit happens, what about people who get COVID during a school term and spend maybe an entire week in bed, they survive. I’ll survive. I just have to work harder for the remaining weekend.
For the first time, I relate to this guy:
I also didn’t do my daily run today, which is another small sadness to add to the pile. But, I will tomorrow, okay?
I’m going to do the ACC 611 reflection first, get that small easy task out of the way, then do the CAS notes that I said yesterday I was going to do.
Today’s Classes
Friday today, so no lectures, just a guest speaker session for ACC 611.
The topic was External Reporting from an Internal Perspective.
Our guest speaker was Susan Campbell, who used to work as SVP Finance at Cineplex. She started as an accountant in the mining industry, went on to work at a tech company during the dot com bubble, then jumped to Cineplex. She was there when Cineplex went public in 2003, and was subsequently in charge of preparing the annual financial statements and MD&A (including during the past couple of COVID years—not easy for a movie theatre business lol).
One anecdote she told was that the first-ever MD&A they published came with a book jacket, and you could redeem the jacket for a free bag of popcorn!!
(She also talked about how she took a bookkeeping class in Grade 11 and knew from there that she wanted to become a CPA. Which, wow, can’t relate. Even after earning a whole degree in accounting, I can’t genuinely say I want to become a CPA. Sigh. I feel so insecure about my career choices sometimes.)
I wrote my reflection for this speaker session today as well. It was about the importance of communication and other characteristics that are necessary for a good MD&A.
Standards and Cases
- Knocked out CAS 240 in the afternoon.
- Only got through half of IFRS 5 and ASPE 3475 before it was past 10 and I went to get ready for bed.
- Didn’t write or debrief any cases today, even though I should be writing the Roman Systems case for 611 and debriefing Winner’s Lottery Services for 650 this week. CRY
Overall Feelings
Still a pretty shit day emotionally. And I barely got anything done because I wasted most of my time away. I always tell myself, I’ll get my shit together tomorrow, but I can’t keep saying that and not following up.