leaping before looking

just responded to a post from my friend ryan's blog

http://1-peach-2-peach.livejournal.com/50569.html

now that school is (nearly) over, i'll have much more time for conversations like this one. at least i hope it turns into a conversation.

let's see....exams given? check. exams graded? check. grades entered into the gradebook? check. grades uploaded to edline to give students a chance to complain before i make it official? check. looking forward to tomorrow being the last day i have to get up at 5AM for three months? check.

feels great to be a teacher right now.

busy busy busy tomorrow. school/end of the year breakfast tomorrow at 7:30. getting all checked out, hopefully by 11:30, earlier if i can pull my butt out of bed (we're contractually obligated to be there for four hours tomorrow and can leave once that's done). then, weather-cooperating, i'll head to the island for my first beast fix of the season. maybe a couple. then home to prepare for my audition at 5:00ish. then to the fox and hound for some post-school-year reveling. looking forward to some good, unhealthy fried appetizers and an adult beverage or two (probably just one, knowing my cheap ways). then to bed so i can get up early to drive up to weirton/pittsburgh saturday morning. nothing like hitting my summer vacation running.

things i NEED to do in the next week....

• call for an eye appointment (i am out of contacts and it's been two years since my last checkup)
• call a tree guy to get jarnsaxa healthy
• figure out financing for getting jarnsaxa healthy
• figure out financing for a new computer
• make a list of house-related projects for the summer
• start going to morning prayers
  
• sleep. a lot.

things i'd LIKE to do in the next week....

• do a little volunteering at the fringe festival
• get on my bike and ride
• get off my butt and use the Y membership i've had for five months but never used
• figure out some kind of road trip for this summer
  
• meet the love of my life
• sleep. a lot.

we'll see.

time to do a bit of reading. relaxing. last school night for a while. and all the teachers say, "amen."
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Tunes: suzanne vega - the queen and the soldier