This past weekend was spent with my sister. Every year, we go to the Texas Hill Country area, stay with a friend of hers, and float the river. We usually take pictures, but for whatever reason, this time, our cameras stayed in our bags. Sometimes you have to unplug from everything and just enjoy. At least that’s the excuse I’m using today, since I don’t have any photos to show. We had a great time eating, floating, and generally relaxing. I got home last night exhausted and feeling that I had squeezed every last drop out of the summer.
Because, my friends, even though we have a good two months of summer-like temperatures in Texas, something happens today to mark the end of the summer. School starts.
I can’t believe it’s already time. Later this afternoon I will attend my first graduate-level class. I’m equal parts excited and terrified. I’ve been telling myself I would go back to school since I finished my undergrad in 2007. I knew it would happen eventually, but until earlier this year, I didn’t know when, and I always thought it would be for English, or maybe Creative Writing. I had no idea that this is where I would end up, and that I would finally feel like I am on exactly the right path, at exactly the right time.
As I fill out my planner with my new class schedule and drink my coffee, I can faintly hear Age Six Racer by Dashboard Confessional playing in the background. Yes, summer is over, and a new chapter is beginning.
Ready or not, here I go.
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Kayleigh says:
YOU GOT THIS.
Amy says:
Happy first day of school! You’re going to be amazing, I just know it.
Jill says:
I hope you have a great day! You’re going to do awesome! :)
Marlena says:
You’re going to rock grad school. It isn’t half as scary as it seems – just involves a LOT of work. If there’s anyone that can handle that, it would be you my dear!
Holly says:
Ah! I always LOVED the first day of school … I spent way too much time organizing my binders, filling out my dayplanner, arranging everything just so in my backpack. Hope you have a great first day!!!
Mary says:
Yay! Have a great semester – you’re going to do fine :)
CookinwVictoria says:
You can do it girl!!!! :) You are going to do awesome!
Chrissy (The New Me) says:
Happy dance! I only had one class last week, which was such a tease! Today feels like the real beginning. I think it’s going to be a wonderful year for the both of us. Nerds unite!
Sarah says:
*like*
Stephany says:
Happy first day of school! I have no doubt you’ll be absolutely, 100% fine!
Katie says:
Have a great first day of school! You’ll do great!
Suburban Sweethearts says:
I like your Dashboard Confessional-quoting title…
Abigail @ Skywaitress says:
If you were enjoying things so much that you didn’t even stop to take pictures then you must have had the best of times. Those memories are worth a million pictures.
Good luck with grad school. You’re going to do great.
Katherine Price says:
Goodbye Summer :) I can’t wait for fall! Cooler weather and more trips to your house! I’ll come over a lot and make sure you take some time to enjoy your young life before you finish school, have kids and realize your life really is over, at least for the next 18 years :P (sings softly: you’re just giving birth now, you’re not mother earth nowww)
Lori says:
Happy 1st Day of School! You will do great!
Dad says:
I love you and Peanut! Glad you guys had some time together.I’ll be praying for you. Enjoy the journey :)
dad
Amanda says:
Happy first day of school!! :)
jen says:
this is the first fall i am not going back to school, it was an odd feeling this morning as the kid went off to the first day of school and all i had to look forward to was work…Good Luck in Grad School! You will rock it!!
Julie says:
Woo hoo, I’m glad you found something that you feel and think will fit you! Enjoy school. I don’t think I could go back. I’m one of those lost career puppies that still doesn’t know where I would fit best in society or the business world so I wouldn’t have a clue what to go back to school for. For now I LOVE where I’m at, so I’ll stick to it. I hope you love where you are at now and at the end of schooling too!
tillie says:
yay for going back to school!! So excited for you!
Angie Bailey says:
Ooo, enjoy your first day of school!!!
I am so, so excited for Autumn. I love Summer for the holidays (both country wide and personal,) but Autumn is my favorite season! And Halloween, my favorite holiday!
Also, Dashboard Confessional! <3