Wake me up when October ends

Surprisingly, as if I didn't know it was coming, it is already down to the last week or so. I don't know if it will ever really sink in that Missouri is no longer my home. It's part of my family... I can't just walk away from it. Surely it comes with me. Or surely I come back to it.

This move has been surprisingly easy for me, and I don't just mean the technicalities of breaking a contract with Blair Oaks, picking up my belongings and packing it down south.... but no, even the emotional and mental roller coaster hasn't been so bad, although I'm sure you all are cocking an eyebrow at me with that statement, given my past few posts. So maybe I'm in a glass-half-full mentality right now, but I have been dealing with the separation from family, friends, everything I've ever known, etc. quite well, thank you very much. I think Aaron has too, for that matter, although it feels like I barely know him lately. He's much stronger than I am... what with being down there alone and with his dad's situation. I'm sure I would be a mental basketcase by now. Lots of bananas and coconuts.

The Juniors turned in their short stories today... that amounts to about 80 of the eventual 130 papers that will grace my desk, awaiting my red-inked sword. 6 more days to grade them all, and only about 5 graded. lol..... I'm in denial. And on that note, I'm going to go to bed.