Launch Delayed Again

Just a few minutes before it was expected to lift off, NASA delayed the shuttle launch yet again. Thunderstorms in the area made it too dangerous to send the spacecraft up. I had headed down to the beach with my new video camera in hand, seeing thunderhead clouds and hearing distant thunder. I remember thinking that Cape Canaveral was too far away for me to hear thunder there, and that maybe there wouldn't be lightning at the launch site. Then, as I was waiting to cross Ocean Drive, a woman rolled down the window of her car and told me that the launch had been scrubbed.
I was disappointed. After all, there are only eight shuttle launches left, and they don't usually happen when I'm available to see.
An amazing number of people apparently had the same idea I did. I usually walk pretty much alone to the beach, particularly at this time of day, yet this evening there was a constant parade of cars and people walking that way.
When I got home, I stopped to close a couple more of my new shutters. I've got the two back bedrooms done, now the den. There's a busy day tomorrow, and I want to have the house closed up before I go. I'll leave by the garage door. I kind of wanted to turn off the power to the garage door, but I'm going to need to get in that way when I get back. It will be very dark, probably close to ten o'clock, when I get back, and I don't want to have to deal with the shutters just to get into the house. Garage it is. Another decision made.

It's already started...

After three years out of the classroom, I had forgotten how teaching TAKES OVER YOUR MIND. I'm not there yet--and I don't even really know what my assignment will be. Eighth grade language arts, I think, but it could be another grade. I'm pretty sure it won't be French. And I know it won't be technology because the state doesn't think I know enough about that to be certifed. But I digress.
So I'm constantly thinking about what I can do to make class interesting, how I can engage students, how I will set up a well-managed classroom, how I will create a no-excuses everybody is kind to one another learning environment, what I will do when...
See? I'm six weeks out, and I can't stop thinking about it. It's always in the background, no matter what else I'm doing. Everything is instantly related to my teacher-self, the kids, the classroom, the learning, the technology.
I had so totally forgotten about that. But it's back.