I think I'm ready for a volunteer sort of thing now, but I wasn't in the right mode for it after highschool (I was desparate to get the hell out of there and focus on myself for awhile, which may not have been a good thing).

I think what you're doing sounds cool. I'm taking a year off (er, well, not proceeding directly to grad school or whatever further education I'll eventually submit to) sort of by default and not having a clue what I want to do yet and needing to hone some of my other-than-academic skills. I don't care so much about doing whatever everyone else is doing, but for some reason not "getting on with my life" makes me a bit anxious--which is really ridiculous, because if whatever I'm doing is what I want to be doing then, it is life.

I changed the tsunami post to 'private'...it felt a little..silly or something to put up for people to read. That's always a conflict I have: being torn between using this as a personal journal, writing what I want and making almost everything public in case anyone ever wants to read it vs. writing to an audience of some sort. I would totally keep it as the former on principle except that I've kind of begun liking getting attention. It's ironic that I tend to write less, and less openly, as more people have added me.