20 April 2007

Professional Practice Exam

Yep, tomorrow is the big day: I'm writing my Law & Ethics exam at 2pm over at good ol' U of T.

500 people, three hours, two courses, and zero open books = one PPE sitting.

Add to that the 48 months of engineering experience, 48 months of university nightmares, and three good character references, and you can get yourself a P.Eng. application...

Should be fun. :)

01 April 2007

Taxing Routes

I know it's generally seen as horrid and long-winded and overly mathy -- and perennial -- but I have a small confession to make:
I actually enjoy doing my taxes.

It must be a throw-back to the days of yore when "Choose Your Own Adventure" books were hot ticket items and you could follow whatever path you wanted because it was all laid out for you.

Unfortunately for those books, I always ran out of fingers keeping the pages as markers so I could return to find out what Else might have happened... I had no patience to re-read the segments later.

And therein lies the fundamental likeability of taxes: there is only one route I need to keep track of... and ooh SNAP! it's all based on numbers! yaaaaay! :)