I think I'm done. Well, almost. I finished my final today. I need to have Josh proof it. All in all, almost finishing my first year of grad school is pretty anti-climactic. My students take their final in the morning, so I need to be there to procter, then I'll have 28 tests to grade. 9 pages each - yippee! After that, we need to clean in preparation for Josh's family's visit this weekend. I'm starting to realize that at the beginning of next week, I will be experiencing life in a completely new way. I'll be free from school for a few months, having much more free time, and I'm not quite sure how to feel about it. It will be a taste of the "real life" I so often crave. I don't really know what that will be like. I got a part-time nanny job, which will be nice. I'll also be doing 100 hours for my fellowship. Other than that, I will be able to make dinners, clean, and pay Josh back for all the wonderful help he's been while I've been slaving away in school for a year. I'm looking forward to it. I hope that I can cherish the summer, use it to rest, reflect, re-asses, and then get a master's degree. Who knows what will come after that. Part of me really wants to stick it out for the PhD. But, another part of me feels like moving on. Josh and I have been talking a lot about his goals, and I would really like to take the backseat for awhile after my master's and help facilitate Josh becoming what he dreams.

So, the bottom line is, I'm happy to be done with this year and I look forward with uncertainty to what awaits.