Wow. Could it possibly have been 3 months since I posted last? Where did the summer go, I'd like to know?
I'm a teacher, right? I have all the time in the world during the summer. I've got one of those great jobs where we have "off" for a 3 full months, all the holidays, and I go to school late and get out early and even get snow days (ok, the snow days are REALLY great).
I also get to pay for my own continuing education and do all that training when I'm not at my job. So when in actuality I leave school at 6 pm, then I get to go home and study and write papers and read scholarly articles until I'm too exhausted to do any more and my brain is fried and I go to bed and get up at 6:30 a.m. to do it all over again.
I do love teaching, and I'm learning to love my new job as a Reading Resource teacher, but I can't express how happy I'll be to have my master's degree in hand and have some time to choose what I would like to do after school rather than having my schedule all laid out for me.
Which brings me back to what I was doing this summer. More course work. A couple classes, a trip to Milwaukee to visit my dear friend Terri who lives in Morocco (stay tuned for a sampling of some of the songs we recorded in a quick summer recording session!) and Pete's family, a visit from my nephew Zach and his parents Mark and Julie, a quick camping trip, and a weekend at the boathouse in Solomon's island.
It was a good summer, but it just flew by. I did find moments to rest and play between blocks of work, but it turned out to be a little more work than I had hoped for. Too bad I have only one appendix to burst. I'd kinda like having to STOP life and slow down a bit. When will that ever happen?
