Penultimate

 Today is technically the last day of "Week 9" for this quarter. I have not yet written my weekly reflection for my leadership class, and I'm not quite sure if I will have anything brilliant to write. Next week is "off" due to the holiday week, but I still have a lot of work to do, with assignments due Week 10 and Exam Week. I am "caught up" with work assignments except for a couple submissions not due until December; I have not made those my priority. 

A peer taught me a new trick that I enacted this morning. I put all my old course content for Drexel into my Drexel One Drive. That way I can access it as needed, but it does not stay on my desktop. My computer was yelling at me for having low memory, so maybe this mass deletion will improve my computer's performance. 

This week I learned that my health insurance payments for 2025 will increase dramatically because I had a good 2024 in terms of classes taught. As of right now I have two online classes. I have three open applications for administration positions, all at three of the colleges where I teach or have taught. 

There's not much for me to say about this week of the journey. It's a lot of work, and it never seems to end. But, of course, there will be an ending - less than 16 days for my quarter and less than 27 for my semester. I have this perhaps naive belief that when the remaining thirteen days in front of a class end that I will be in a position to transition into this new idea of what life could be. Yesterday in my personal journal I wrote about actions I can take to reconnect to my acting and writing self. Oh so dramatically, I wrote, "It won't be immediate. It won't be easy. But it's time." 

I think it's also time to wrap up this blog. I do have an idea for one final post on December 20 to commemorate 25 years teaching in person and highlight where to go from there.