Last night was my last grad class. I am also done teaching classes. Now, I just have to grade all of my student papers and finish the rewrite on my research paper (due Saturday). So, um, that means, for the next few days I’m going to be pretty busy.

After class last night, my prof treated all of us to pizza and beer. It was nice to sit around and talk. One of my fellow students was told she didn’t have the “aura of marriage” despite being married for three years. It was a fun class and all of us ended up at the bar afterwards, which is pretty cool.

Yesterday was a scheduling nightmare, but we made it through.

Autumn was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society last night. Unfortunately neither one of her parents were able to attend the ceremony, but Autumn went with a friend. That had more to do with yesterday’s wild schedule.  Justin had baseball practice at 5 p.m. while Amanda and Maxine had softball practice at 6 p.m. and Autumn’s ceremony was at 7 p.m. With me at school, Steve was left alone to go in three different directions.

Plus Justin had a concert at 1:30, which I was able to attend. Then I picked him up from school, and Maxine up from her school. And then we arrived at the field an hour early. Maxine and Justin stayed busy while I sat in the van with my laptop plugged into a cigarette outlet doing homework. And I had to leave the field before Steve actually arrived. He had left work at 4:30 to pick up Autumn and Amanda from track practice. He then had to take Autumn to a friend’s house in Prudenville before arriving at the baseball field at about 5:30 p.m. I was there until around 5:10 p.m., so we just missed each other.

I meet Friday with my prof to continue working on my memoir. We both have pretty clean schedules the next few weeks, so I hope to make a lot of progress. I sent the first three chapters to my other committee members, so things are looking good. It’s almost over, right? So close.

The summer isn’t completely clear. I start teaching online in mid June, and then at the end of June that writing workshop begins. Plus I have to work on my resume and apply for full-time jobs. I really need to work on that next week.

And now I’m just rambling. Thanks for playing.