I continued my administrative work today. I signed the lease, met with the housemates on some planning issues, updated some of my accounts with new addresses, did other misc. admin, and had dinner with Eric.
I'm feeling more settled than I was. If I get a solid sleep tonight I should be approaching the threshold of healthy sleep balance. Meeting with Eric was nice. We had falafel in central square and talked for a while about various things. I already feel like I'm building a community the likes of which I haven't had since SJC. That's a huge benefit of school. I also randomly saw my instructor from last summer's program.
I think having gone to the open house is having a huge effect on my state of mind in these days preceding the start of school. I'm not really nervous, and I feel like I already know so many people. I probably felt more nervous last summer for my program than I do now entering grad school! Anyway, that's good.
I've noticed a phenomenon with my own working habits. Let's say I have two sets of endeavors, A and B. Let's say A is something like, "study the economics book in preparation for the test-out", and let's say B is something like, "get all of your paperwork in order". It's better to do a some A and some B simultaneously than it is to plan to do all B first, until it's finished, and then do all A. You would think that it wouldn't matter. Let's say I have 50 hours to spend in a multi-day period. If I spend the first 25 on B and the second 25 on A, that should be the same as if I spend every other hour in sequence alternatively between B and A, right? Actually, it doesn't seem to work out that way. The net productivity seems higher if I alternate or do them both at the same time.
In light of that, tomorrow I intend to do some economics and some administrative work. Part of my admin is downloading some software, updating some remaining accounts with my new address, and sorting out the new rents at the apartment.