Monday, July 02, 2007

On having too much free time

My birthday is this Wednesday. I have most of the week off (probably the whole week off) from both of my jobs. Techically I could say that it's because of my birthday but...well, I just happened to be born on a holiday.

As long as I live in America I will most likely never have to work on my birthday.

Usually I enjoy having time off. All through last semester I kept looking forward to my Sundays...the one day of the week where I had no school work to do at all and could relax and feel guilt free. Even more so I looked forward to the end of the semester when not only would I be done with college and all the rules but I could live my life without the "threat" of school work looming over my head.

Did I enjoy the free time? Oh yes.

Did I have second thoughts about taking a second job and possibly losing my evening free time? kind of...yes

Do I wish that my two jobs would let me have more hours so that I wouldn't be bored out of my mind when I wasn't working (and sometimes when I am working)? Yes!

Every so often during days off I try to think though the things that I need to do...like I did before. I've even tried to create a to do list.

That effort failed.

There simply isn't that much that I "have" to do. Come to think of it...there really isn't anything that I "have to do.

I'm taking the Praxis II test sometime in the fall and I have the social studies and language arts study guides so that I could study for those tests. I find it hard to get motivated to do that. I've enjoyed my vacation from studies so far and don't really want to get out there and do research in order to make up my own study guides.

Have you seen some of the questions? Here, I'll give you the first one and you tell me if you woudl be motivated to study for a test with questions like this?

Rather than having to pay for costly fortifications, armies, and navies, this country enjoyed free protection provided by nature. Furthermore, for more than a century, British subjects manned and paid for the costly navy that policed and defended the Atlantic and provided this country cost-free added security.
The country that benefited from the added security referred to above was which of the following?
(A) Germany
(B) Holland
(C) Sweden
(D) United States

I read this question to my mother. She looked at me, gave the answer and said "Even I knew the answer to that one!"

Of course, my mother underestimates her intelligence but still. She hasn't been in school for a while and doesn't deal in the history realm.

I'm starting to ramble here because I'm getting bored (the obvious result of too much time on my hands and not having any money to go do something with)

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