The days are starting to run one into another and all is becoming a blur as I keep my eye on the calendar and see the days quickly passing. Sometimes I just stop and let the world keep going around me and just watch and breathe deep all these people and places that I love and have become "home" for me. I wonder why it hasn't set in more than it has that I only have a matter of days left, but I know it will eventually. The walls in my room are bare, my closet is becoming more and more bare with each passing day...the nights are late as I spend every moment I can with those I love and the days are long and hot as I give my remaining energy to these little fireballs that call themselves my students. Its hard to stay motivated to teach and I find myself often tongue-tied and just plain 'ol goofy. Today I wound up on Barb's back with my feet flailing in the air as we were messing around in the office and she pretty much took me down. So maybe its not the most professional, but life is too serious and too hard to not have fun in the places where you spend most of your time. I'm learning to laugh again...and laugh more than ever before. I love this place. The final goodbye, when it sets in, will be a difficult one. But as a friend told me, "You'll get through it just fine." And I will...not because I'm me...but because I'm God's and He will give me the strength. I love knowing that I will see most of these people again...if not here on this earth...then for eternity in Heaven. Makes goodbyes not quite so hard. :)