School starts again for me on Monday, and I'm not looking forward to going to class anymore. But I made a goal to finish my graduate degree, and I'm going to finish it. The next four months will be paced frenetically. I'm still cranking out code for my freelance project as well.

What I'd really like to do is reduce the amount of complications in my life and slow down a bit. When people ask me what I plan to do with my MBA degree, I'm starting to think that "nothing" is a good answer to that question. The most important thing I've learned from attending school and working full time is that life is meant to be taken slowly, so that one can savor the things that bring pleasure to life. I'm more than tired of running around with my hair on fire.

I've been getting back into volunteering mode lately and enjoying every minute of it. There is nothing as fun and low stress as unpaid work. It's not like I have to actually be GOOD at it — what are they going to do, fire me? And the people who volunteer are always in such a fun mood. I wish I had more free time so I could do more volunteer work and sit around smelling the roses. My ideal life situation is to be independently wealthy and spend my time volunteering. I realize it's unrealistic. But one can dream, right? Anyone want to be my Benefactor? Ha ha.