Just this last Wednesday, according to the Gregorian calendar, was the Summer Solstice. The first day of summer...which I find amusing, because the time June 20-22 rolls around, we (us here in the Midwest United States, that is) have already had several days of uncomfortably hot weather. You don't have to tell us it's the first day of summer!
Which leads (albeit loosely) into the question: what have I been doing with my summer so far?
And the answer would be: trying to keep a hold of my sanity.
It occurred to me late last month that 2012 marks my first summer of being what the government calls 'unemployed', but which I'd call 'in transition'. I no longer have a place of employment, giving up my job at the college last month, and since I haven't started culinary classes yet...technically, I am shiftless. And not just a temporary, on-summer-break shiftless either. A kind of a hazy, in-limbo, maybe-temporary shiftless.
But. It's also very likely that this is the last summer I will have that is completely at leisure. See, next summer I'll be in class full time, and the summer after that, I expect to have a job.
So, I'm experiencing an internal struggle of sorts...I do feel like I should try to have a bit of fun and live it up a little with the kiddos...but I also feel this pull to be somewhat productive and full of purpose.
Because once August gets here and my new career course begins, life as I know it currently changes forever.
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