Engage!
At work at the school board today (as opposed to night school, which I work as well), I was working on some ESL classes from last year. The classes are long past, and the information from them hasn’t been recorded on the database, nor sent to the government for money. I had (and still have) piles of information on various classes that contained very scattered info about the classes - registration forms, teachers’ notes, partially complete attendances and registers, etc. With all this half complete info, I put together a complete and final attendance/register for each class. It’s almost like detective work, you really have to sit there, bring all the evidence into the picture, find the links between them, find the holes you need to fill up, and use the information you have (random forms + database records) to fill in the blanks. It was quite engaging for a work activity, I might even say fun (the way the challenge of a puzzle can be fun). It beats the hell out of the monotonous data entry that I do 95% of the time here.
I doubt any of you found that the least bit interesting, but screw you, it's my journal.
More coming, I promise!
-Jon