Today has been a surprisingly good day. I don't say surprisingly because I necessarily expected it to be a bad day. I was surprised by how easy that last mission was in Lego Star Wars II. Over the last few months I haven't played the Death Star II level. When I did try, I tried and failed. Today I came back, resolved to conquer. I did. After a few minutes through with the TIE Interceptor that achievement unlocked. Getting 100% achievement completion in Lego Star Wars II was a good feeling.
It was like when I porched Paperboy, got Revenge in Burnout, finished the Burger King games, and put Live 06 to rest. I had a lot of single achievements left to get back in March and I have completed many of those tasks. By so doing I have gotten my completion percentage back up to 83.55%. As I finish the last five achievements in Marvel Ultimate Alliance, get the last 3 costumes in DoA4, and get my rank up in NFS:Carbon, I expect that completion rate will only go up. This week I will be playing Homecourt and renting another title. The thing is, I certainly have plenty of employment to labor on and school work to finish. I have found the rewards of presenting in front of my cohorts to be of far greater interest than the thrill of unlocking achievements.
Today I gave two presentations at school. One was on the introduction of the new beetle (by Volkswagen) back in the late 90s, the other was a discussion on the Venture capitalization of Yahoo! back in 1995. Both were interesting discussions, and fascinating cases. They reminded me of the awesomeness of studying big business. While neither case was as riveting as the research I did for my organizational restructuring proposal for EA, I learned some things to help in future marketing and entrepreneurial endeavors. Too bad JR didn't follow our recommendations in the latest publisher realignment last week.
During some down time this last week I also started putting together a proposal for a new marketing/advertising/business-centered program. Imagine my surprise when The Bigs commercial appeared on the site. I guess I am not as far off from center as I initially thought my proposal would be.