Focus on Other Efforts

At some point last night--I think it was about the time I started swearing at my Google Alert for "school lunch"--I realized that I need to remind myself that there are other ways I'm trying to make a difference.  I should view this as a golden opportunity to focus on Other Efforts that I'm working on right now:

1. I'm going to submit my school lunch project for a few non-law fellowships.

2. Better Work, Better Life (BWBL), the student organization that I just founded at UVA, needs some serious attention from me if it's going to get off the ground this fall.  I need to get into researching stress and health topics if there is any hope for sending out weekly wellness emails.  (BTW--if you're interested in participating or just receiving emails, please drop me a line.)

3. I will continue working hard at my summer job at the American Cancer Society.

4. I'm training hard for the Twin Cities 10-mile race in October, which is my yearly American Cancer Society fundraising activity.  Go Team Amanda!

5. Set up Pro Bono work through UVA.  Probably return to the Mediation Center of Charlottesville.

6. Remembering that even a smile can brighten someone else's day.

OK, I'm obviously stretching, so we'll leave it there for now.  Some of these are on-going tasks and some are things that will end like many service projects often do.  Not bad for a given point in time, I think.  In other news, I've decided that if I can't find a job that meets my service desires, I'm going to auction myself off on Craigslist or YouTube or something.  Not in a freaky-deaky way.  But in a I'm-educated-and-experienced-and-want-to-change-the-world-let-me-help-your-cause and then go with the winning cause.  Crazy?  Up there with kidney and egg donation (which are ideas that I will never entertain again as effective means of difference-making)?  Or just plain brilliant?