I just got home from this year's graduation at the high school, where, mercifully, I was nowhere near the ceremony itself. My graduation night duty is in the main office, and once the kids leave building and head for the football field, I'm done. The ceremony's still going on -- if I could hear like a normal person, I could probably stand in my front yard and hear the names over the loudspeaker, about a half mile away -- but I'm home.
Tomorrow is the last day for staff, and once that's done, well, so am I. I'm not working at all this summer, as I usually have, at least for a few weeks. I've always done that to get things ready for the fall, even if I wasn't getting paid for it. I don't want to do that anymore. Really, if my principal, board, and central administration had a plan to demoralize and burn out staff, they couldn't be doing it any more effectively. But enough of that.
So tomorrow, a barbecue for lunch, tinged with a bit of sadness, since our chief cook for the last 20 years -- a chemistry teacher, by the way -- is retiring, and this will be his last stand at the grill. Then on Saturday, before dawn, Chum heads up to her vacation home in New England for the summer, so I'll miss her too. We don't know what we did before email; sometimes, we email several times a day while she's gone. Neither one of us has youthful enough reflexes for IMing.
Well, a short, pointless entry, really; I just hadn't written anything yesterday so I wanted to get something in. No idea why.
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