Damp, busy, and buckling up for the last two weeks...

UP, and it's a grey and damp start to the day. It's Sunday, and I have a few things I want to accomplish, but gee whiz, Mother Nature, can we have a dry day? Less wet, maybe? That said, if I can't get things done outside, then I've got a list of indoor stuff, so-- I'll be busy doing something or other.

Why do I always feel like I have to be busy? Parent tapes--my mother-- run deep. What I really want to do is sit and read, gaze out the window, and maybe even doze off in the afternoon. But I digress. At least I don't have papers to grade today-- the end of the week, I sure will, though. Seniors are all done on Thursday, academic awards are on Friday afternoon, and graduation is next Sunday afternoon. I will have their final papers to do, so I'll be busy. Luckily, none of them are failing, so getting the papers done by Sunday is not necessary. Thank goodness-- there have been a couple of years when it was quite literally last minute. 

I'll be losing one of my creative writing students to graduation, too. So, for the ensuing half week, I'll have just two students, total. We'll figure it out. =) I want to read some local poets and focus on literature of place, but we'll see. 

There's the end of the year stuff to get done, too. Inventory, book count, purchase orders, etc.-- all that "fun stuff" that clutters up the ends of things. I don't mind not having my seniors that last half week-- plenty of time to get things done. At least I'm not moving classrooms. Amen to that. 

So, this week will be a busy one, and next weekend will be a good transition to the "ends of things." I'm glad my syllabi are all approved and so on. Now, if I only knew for sure what next year was going to bring. We have some staff shifts going on, and it's a little murky regarding what the new person is going to be doing/teaching. Not too murky; I know I'm doing my classes that are dual credit and AP, but there's one dual credit option that is either going to get lost and that class turned into a general ed class, or ?? who knows. At least it's not until second semester, so maybe we'll get that all sorted out. Still, it makes me uneasy to not know exactly what and when I'm teaching. Or if the writing lab is funded (grants being what they are). I'm not good with uncertainty. (No surprise there.)

But today, I'm certain that it's going to be damp. It may rain, but it's not supposed to. And I know for certain that there's coffee in there somewhere.

Have a good day,

C