My building has been empty for a solid month and I LOVE IT!!!!
The summer duty schedule isn't perfect but anything is better than the restrictions that were placed on us during the actual school year and especially the last few weeks of school.
A lot has changed. Three RDs have left (grad school & other employment opportunities) so there are now 3 new RDs. I got a promotion (woot!!) so I'll now have 2 buildings instead of just 1. I typically don't like change (shocking, considering how often I moved while growing up) so I'm reminding myself to just embrace it.
One of the RDs that left was my go-to hang out buddy. It's been an adjustment to begin doing a lot of things by myself. I am enjoying it though! I'm doing things on my own time-schedule and it is very liberating. I am naturally a very laid-back person and I often just go with the flow of what others want. This is fine to an extent but I've learned that I have to start dictating what I want to do, when I want to do it, and then DO IT. I'm not implying that my hang-out buddy prevented me from doing what I wanted to do....I'm just saying that because of my personality I often put my desires on the back burner because I wanted to be easy-going and I am now discovering how unnecessary that is.
I'm struggling to have the motivation to do actual work (i.e. preparing for next year). I think I'll just relax these remaining days of June and get gung-ho about preparing for next year in July.
