The mail pile.
I took some time this weekend to comb through piles of letters that I had sitting on my table in the basement. Since the start of March or February the majority of my mail had just been piling up. (It all added up to a few pounds of paper in the recycling bin.) So I read through piles of bills (the ones I hadn't paid immediately) and letters, to find some bills past due. Luckily, the larger more important bills are handed through funds transfers or are automatically removed from my account each month, otherwise I'd have credit score hovering near 0. The only thing I hate about mailing off checks are the unpredictability of it all, you never know when the recipient of the check will decide to cash it. It could be cashed on a good pay week or it could make a bad pay week worse.
I then browsed through hundreds of e-mails at my Temple account. Those e-mails for better or worse represent lost opportunities and avoided disasters. The biggest one being my school loan exit interview, if I had missed today's deadline I would have been in trouble regarding my graduation date. I still need to do more but as far as registering for events, getting tickets and the like, I seem to be okay. I also missed a great Photoshop Workshop that took place during a spring break weekend. What's gone is gone, but the fact that my professors recommended a seat at this workshop for me still stings, even a month later.
And it's time for this random update to end here. I suspect that my free time will continue to shrink given the sheer amount of projects that are due for classes. (Two next week, including a bout with jury duty and some needed but optional assignments.) I don't want to even think about all of the hoops I'll have to jump through to complete those May (AKA make or break) projects.
I then browsed through hundreds of e-mails at my Temple account. Those e-mails for better or worse represent lost opportunities and avoided disasters. The biggest one being my school loan exit interview, if I had missed today's deadline I would have been in trouble regarding my graduation date. I still need to do more but as far as registering for events, getting tickets and the like, I seem to be okay. I also missed a great Photoshop Workshop that took place during a spring break weekend. What's gone is gone, but the fact that my professors recommended a seat at this workshop for me still stings, even a month later.
And it's time for this random update to end here. I suspect that my free time will continue to shrink given the sheer amount of projects that are due for classes. (Two next week, including a bout with jury duty and some needed but optional assignments.) I don't want to even think about all of the hoops I'll have to jump through to complete those May (AKA make or break) projects.