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, plenty of work I should be doing. And luckily I have the greatest friends and colleagues in classrooms right around mine so I can muster up enough energy to make it to the Art room (where there are even more plants) or the GT or Music rooms to be able to get out of my room a little. And luckily the bathroom is only 2 doors down. So it’s definitely different, but all of that’s temporary. As I’ve been reminded, and have to keep reminding myself… that stuff is just time. And time will keep passing, and all of those limitations will eventually pass and get better also. For now, I need to remind myself how lucky I am (in every aspect of my life) and the opportunity I have to keep on going when not everyone who gets cancer is lucky enough to have that opportunity.