Midterm motivation slump November 12, 2007

I’m pretty sure this is quite normal, but man, I am struggling with motivation. Apparently I really do live and die by deadlines, because I technically don’t have anything due for the next couple of days, and I have spent a LOT of my day attempting to study and accomplishing absolutely nothing (read: sitting in front of the computer with a million tabs open and halfway downloading things that might be relevant to my job search or economics project, but largely just spacing the eff out–much like now, writing my blog instead of doing actual work–I rock). A couple of good things about today are that I might have found the most perfect internship ever (in CA nonetheless!) but I don’t want to say anything else about it for fear of jinxing it. (However, J&L, if it did work out for me to be in CA next summer, I’d probably be able to swing a week in LA for your wedding, making myself as useful as possible! How cool would that be?!) Also, I signed myself up for the committee that’s planning the annual ski trip to Andorra in Jan/Feb, so I’m about to get my feet wet managing a pretty major project. Wheeee! Of course, this means that I’ve started to read the case for Financial Analysis about 10 times now, and have mostly accomplished reading the same paragraph 10 times–it doesn’t become totally urgent to read it until Wednesday night, so, yeah, I think we know when I’m probably going to actually get around to it. Man, some things never change…

Outside of my b-school life (I know I know, I don’t really have a life outside of school, but for about 38 hours this weekend, I felt like I did!) Paddy came to visit me for the weekend. We had a BLAST, and it was SO cool to be able to share my beautiful new city with one of my very own people. (Aim, I’m even more excited for you to come, because this city has a LOT to offer, and I can’t wait to squire you around and show you why I love it so much!!) We ate, we drank, we were very merry (definitely related to said eating and drinking), and the people rejoiced. ‘Twas grand. Between the two Patricks, they’re doing a hell of a job of making my 28th birthday–Paddy for visiting right before my birthday, and Patrick for buying me a flight to spend a belated birthday weekend in London. Man, don’t I have the best friends in the world?

Wow, so I’ve successfully procrastinated my way to bedtime. Man, seriously, I rock…