Spring Break

Today is the first day of Spring Break. School's out for the next ten days and I start thinking about all those things that'll get done before I go back. Hah! Or as one puts it in IM speak, "LMAO!" This time I got smart. I have no goals. Just do what needs to be done each day and enjoy the time off. That way-by Tuesday, April 6th-there's no guilt, no sense of having wasted all the time only to pick up the same pile of work I left in the corner on March 26th and get ready for school. That sounds like a workable plan.


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