Tomorrow is IT!

I have my boxes packed, emptied out my files and have very little to do aside from saying so long to the World of the Secretary. I'm SO excited and scared at the same time.

It's been a long arduous process in which the background has been ORHS. From the month I began working at the high school, I have been a full-time college student. So, the transition comes with very strong ties to my job. That is the place that changed my opinion of teenagers. From complete annoyance to drive to help them succeed. Granted, I haven't always been a ray of sunshine in that office. Rather, more like a box of mad frogs. But it's that anxiety to do more that has kept me anxious to move on.

Tomorrow it may hit me with a little more strength. Today, though, it comes second to the peace within that I have found through determination and focus.

I don't want to leave with anything but the same type of energy used in folding your old, worn, comfortable college sweatshirt away for The Next Chapter. Closure comes with the acknowledgement that this is exactly where I should be, moving forward.

Thank GOD I made it to see the eve of that day.

It's unfortunate, in some ways, that I have created that distance between myself and the students. Where before I was willing to go that extra mile to make sure that the students knew that they had a confidant in the office, not anymore. It was so hard to see the last 3 years worth of graduates move forward. I was most connected with the class of 2008. They were my freshmen when I began working there so I saw them grow up from 9th to the cap and gown.

But at this time, this year, I am at peace with it all.

Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow.