In the mail this week: Dear Mike: Please be advised that I intend to nominate you for a second probationary contract for school year 2007-2008. My nomination is subject to approval by the Board of Directors. Yeah, seven months of worry, finally over. Go figure that I'll be sitting on a panel about how to survive your first year in front of a bunch of interns going for their master's degrees in education. The person assembling the panel is probably assuming I know more about education than they do. If only she knew. A full week of Senior Project Presentations is over for our kids, and all of my advisees actually passed! This makes me happy, mostly because there were a few I was worried about. Coincidentally, presentations became a good forum for our students to confront their flaws and celebrate their strengths. That makes the chaos and the stress more than worthwhile. And now comes the final stretch. Energy, building rollercoasters and rockets in class. Graduation. Beginning my summer employment in Waldoboro in June. It's so close, and hard to believe it was over so fast. But, for now, I get to enjoy my vacation, and do all of those things I said I'd be doing in the last entry. It's funny that those laundry lists very rarely get done. Maybe this break I'll actually do all of it.