When I was a college student, the week or two after everything was said and done for a semester was always a little surreal, and I find that pattern is much the same as a teacher. The past week has been that kind of surreal feeling for me. I turned in final grades last Tuesday. There are still a few loose ends to tie up that I'm working through. I was going to try to wrap up more of them by Sunday night, but I decided to take my time shopping on Friday and enjoyed a laid-back day. Saturday morning, I took Deogi to the vet for an overdue vaccination, and I spent the afternoon at a wedding. It was the first student wedding that I've gone to. It's one of my "life connect" girls, which means I've had chances to meet with her outside of class to catch up on life and pray with, so it was cool that she included me in this step of her life.
Sunday, I didn't intend on spending the bulk of the day doing yard work, but once I got started, I just had the momentum to keep going. It was nice to get time outside. By the time the spring semester is over, I'm dying to get outside. I've found one drawback to grading everything electronically is that it makes it harder to get outside. I have to usually put a whole structure around my laptop screen to cut the glare enough for me to see it. I'm please with how the yard is shaping up. Weather permitting, tomorrow my dad is going to drive out to my house to help me cut down some tree branches that are blocking light to the new plants and the plants I planted last year. There's also an ugly, scraggly pine tree next to the deck that we're going to demolish altogether.
Right now I'm stuck at my parents house until tomorrow. I had planned to stay here today while my car was being worked on, but I was going to head back home tonight to clean for the Bible study that I'm hosting tomorrow. It turns out though that the car repair isn't going to be done until tomorrow because the mechanic has to get a part overnighted. Blech. It's the converter, so it's going to be a big bill. What's really disappointing is that I've dumped a good bit of money into emissions sensors for the past two car inspections. This mechanic is telling me that the clogged converter would cause the car to send a false diagnostic signal about the emissions sensors, and they probably never needed to be replaced in the first place. Oh well, it could be worse. The way the car was acting, I was a little afraid I might have a transmission problem on my hands, which would be even more expensive. Plus, the car is paid off, so it's worth it to pay a little more to keep it on the road. I'd like to have at least another 2-3 years with that car.
The rest of this week will be mostly spent doing house stuff because I'm only want to spend minimal time on school. When I get back from my mid-June trip to Florida is when it will be time to start back into planning for next semester in a concentrated fasion.
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only 2-3 years out of the car? heck, Sport is still around and kickin (sort of, most of the time) and we will be celebrating our 9 year anniversary in a few weeks. haha
@akonikeoni - Thanks for the encouraging reminder about Sport. Really, it was nice to read considering I put over $1300 on a credit card today to get Improv back on the road...Yikes. If we can celebrate a 9 year anniversary though, it will be worth it.