It's 12 pm. I'm home 4 hrs early from work. This is where the unpredictable enters in my term "occasionally & unpredictably employed." I'm home early because I got to the school where I'm working daily (a 40 min drive each way) to find out that my client (student) was out sick. I'm not allowed to work/get paid/be at the school if he's not there. You'd think this was an easy fix - the teacher should just call me & let me know, right? Right. However, this has happened once before & I'd already suggested that avenue. When this morning rolls around, though, apparently she had the wrong number.
On the 40-min drive home (I pretty much got to the school & turned around), I brainstormed productive ways to use my time, as well as productive places to funnel this frustration. When I got home, my mom invited me to go to Kohl's with her. I told her that retail therapy is not on the List of Productivity. Because that SPENDS $, $ that I do not have because I have now only worked three days this week.

The List of Productivity:

• hang the socks for my mom. This does not earn money, but it earns good will. I'm living at home rent-free & I definitely understand the importance of being a good housemate. 
• post on the blog! This also does not earn money, but some day maybe it will! All my favorite blogs ( 1, 2, 3,)have become sources of income for their writers. It begs the question: how does a gal make her huge break in the blogosphere? Tips please!
• get around to writing that letter of complaint to Megabus (cha-ching! Travel $$$!!!). I'll post pictures to prove that I actually followed through with this one...
• learn some new Arabic words. It's called delayed-gratification, folks. 2 words a day & in a few years I'll be technically fluent (that is, if I ever actually speak Arabic with anybody)! 
• Practice guitar. Busking on the street corners of East Greenville, PA (pop. 2,951 at the 2010 census) is my back-up plan. Plus, it's good for the soul.
• Make a hearty meal - eating well is always a productive use of time. Today's plan: sprinkle copious amounts of cheese on a homemade tortilla & pop it in the broiler. Try it. It's one of those meals that can only be dreamed up by a college student with no heat & fewer ingredients.

Hope ya'll have been having a day as great (or better!) than mine!