Wednesday, September 17, 2008

On My Mind

I've been looking for places to volunteer for a while, and Megan recommended looking on craigslist. I just submitted my application to volunteer with Sasha Bruce Youthwork, so hopefully that will pan out. It's surprising how many places can't make good use of volunteers. I think I could learn a lot about myself if I paid attention to where I was interested in volunteering. A thought experiment for another day.

I signed up for a free GRE from Kaplan, so the plan is to take it on Sunday. It's time to get the ball rolling, since I'm thinking seriously of PhDs, law school, and business school, so I could end up needing to take the GMAT or the LSAT. I'm secretly hoping that the interest will fade, just like how it's no longer exciting to do laundry when you don't have a paper to write. It would be good to figure out what the laundry is in this equation (good metaphor, huh). I'm also bargaining with myself that I will take two but not three tests, so there's at least some mitigation for the disaster.

I stayed at work late to counter the amazing amounts of time I spent on google reader today. Hopefully tomorrow will be more productive. I would be interested in hearing thoughts on how people manage their productivity in the face of boring work or the lack of imminent deadlines. Not that things were boring, just wondering.

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