- Commiserate with others who are also waiting by checking online forums and yahoo groups.
- Read blogs about how others waited -- yeah, real exciting stuff.
- Watch old seasons of The Amazing Race on Hulu and think: would I want to be posted there? The answer mostly is Yes.
- Finish up grad school. I'm in my last two classes and have been accepted to graduate at the end of December.
- Procrastinate working on my final, final group project of grad school.
- Start working on things that should have been done long ago, but will be really important once I get into the Foreign Service: make a will, make a healthcare directive, check life insurance, setup a revocable living trust..fun stuff like that.
- Procrastinate on all that stuff above while I read other FSO/FSS blogs, especially ones about Flag Days.
- Start thinking about what goes, what stays with Mark (at least during training in DC), and what can get tossed, donated, or recycled.
- Work on hobbies. I made this jacket:
- Determine to hit the gym or exercise more while I still have time before an orientation class starts
- Procrastinate on that by planning upcoming trips: Madrid for Thanksgiving and Oklahoma City for Christmas to see my family.
Gotta go, the Racers are off to Estonia (YES, I would like to be posted there) and I have to check the forums at careers.state.gov for any updates.
**Assuming one is not already working.
