Back To Work!
Went back to work on Thursday (not because I took time off, just because it was summer). And it was great to be back. Let’s face it, this summer had more than its fair share of suck so the summer ending was not the bummer it usually is. (Which is also not to say that there aren’t more rounds of suck coming up… because there are.) But it was so nice to back around friends, and enthusiasm, and purpose. There are definitely differences — things that I don’t love but am just going to have to get used to. Like my regular routines of stopping by the front office just to check in and get myself out of my classroom once in a while. Rarely have the energy to do that. Just “running down to the copier” to pick up something I sent to print out… nope. Those all get saved up for one or two trips a day. There’s a lot more of me getting “stuck” in my classroom because my body simply won’t let me venture much further than that. But I’ve got my plants, my piano, my fountain, my wave machine, ...