Today is my last official day of summer vacation. It's been a summer of ups and downs and being busy. I've been able to stick with my routine of writing something everyday, although some days I definitely wrote more than others. I need a vacation to recoup from my summer break. Well, more like to get my head in the right frame of mind for thinking full-on for school again. But, at this point, it feels rather like jumping into the pool to just get it over with and get used to the water temp. Maybe it's the jump start I need. I would like more time to focus and research and such for my classes - I'm teaching five different courses this year. I've taught them all before, but the juggling... keeping things straight. I shouldn't complain. And I'm not. I love the classes I teach and wouldn't trade them for the world. I work hard to teach them every year. It'll be fun. But the first weeks of school are always the toughest to get the students trained to how I expect them to be in class - routines and all. Invariably, I miss my students from last year and think that the new group could never be like them. Of course, they never can or will, but always stand out well in their own right.
It's the end of the summer and the beginning of a new year...of students, chances, ideas... of a lot of stuff.
