Closing

Five more days and we close. :)

New RAs will often comment on how "creepy" it is to be in such a big building by yourself, but honestly, I LOVE IT!!! It's not that I don't love my residents. Just tonight I was leaving the office at 10 pm and ran into two students who were sitting in the Lobby. I stopped to talk for a while and ended up staying until 11 pm. I know there are quite a few residents that I will miss terribly this summer. But let's be honest, it will also be absolutely wonderful to have the building to myself! I can't wait for the quiet, being able to come and go at any time and knowing that I won't run into someone who may need something and stop me with a question. Never having to worry that maybe you yourself are being too loud and breaking quiet hours. Knowing that you can't get called randomly to respond to an incident. Ahhh, I can't wait! ;)

So far, this week has been pretty much the typical closing week. I'm usually pretty good at keeping up with paperwork - for example the majority of my transition report has been written for a while - so closing doesn't tend to be that busy and I actually spend quite a lot of time in the office working on random things that really aren't that important. One of the things on my to-do list (I need something to keep me focused or I'll just start daydreaming) is looking through my files on my computer and organize those better. When things like that are on your to-do list, you have to be pretty bored. ;) Haha.

Don't get me wrong - there are things I could do. I want to revise the syllabus for one of our first-year courses for one of my learning communities. I also am in the process of writing a syllabus for a learning community leaders class. I could probably start thinking about things I can prepare for the Fall. But there's just nothing pressing, which is kinda nice and then also kinda strange and unnerving. Nevertheless I manage to stay in the office until 10 pm - what is wrong with me? But then again, that's normal for me - especially around this time of the year. You always just feel like you should be around, even though there really isn't that much to do but it's closing and closing is supposed to be a big deal, right?