It’s official. School is out. It was actually supposed to be out last Wednesday, but I received a special invitation to go to a “summer camp” on Thursday and Friday. This summer camp was the brain child of Jared who, again, clearly doesn’t have enough to do. Anyway, the school picked some teachers to attend a two-day seminar on collaboration and team-building. Supposedly we were picked because of our leadership potential. I just think they chose people who would likely say yes. (I’m not sure what that says about me….) The important thing, however, is that we were paid. And received free shirts. And food. And books I will never read. It’s all about the swag.
So, here I am, my first official day of summer break–or first week day I don’t have to go anywhere–and this is what I’ve accomplished so far:
1. Sleep in to an unearthly hour. Normally I can’t sleep in that much anymore. But I guess I was tired.
2. Read the first 5 pages of the 800+ page book I need to read by next week for my Stanford conference.
3. Gave up reading and checked my friends’ blogs.
4. Decided to update my own.
Yep. It’s going to be a summer of accomplishment. I can feel it.
Actually I have quite a few goals which I will work on this summer. One of which is to make some goals. I’m kidding. Maybe.
The fact is, however, I actually a little sad that school is out. This year I had really great students and it was a little tough to see them go. More importantly, however, I am sad because I’m losing two great friends and colleagues, Diane and Adrienne, who’ve both decided to move back to their mid-west roots. I blatantly stole some of Diane’s photos from her blog to post here.
I am going to miss these folks.
Jenny hosted a fabulous good-by party Friday night for them. She created a nifty slide show of the photos she took that night and posted them on her blog. I don’t know how to steal–I mean borrow–those photos, so click here to see that site.
Well, I’ve procrastinated long enough. I better get back to that reading.
June 10, 2008 at 4:23 pm
You have NO IDEA what I would do for your summer right now. No clue! Ahhhh! To sleep in! To not read an assigned book. To bask in the sun! I’m so jealous I can taste it (tastes kinda like West Valley water, sorry to say it). May the summer be terrifically healing (she says, enviously).
June 11, 2008 at 8:59 pm
My brother called in sick yesterday because he didn’t want to go to work. Well, that and he thought he was dying (false alarm). I am really going to enjoy my summer vacation this year. Of course, to far I have celebrated by spending about 4-5 hours (with all of the water turned off and the restrooms barricaded, that’s about my limit) at the school everyday. Today, they are tearing the insulation off of the water pipes that are going to be replaced. I think tomorrow I won’t come in. I was thinking of setting some goals, too. Only problem is that I can’t think of any. If you come up with any good ones, let me know.