Where I currently work, we move to a summer schedule which means an hour longer day but we only work 4 days. It is a wonderful benefit and will be DEEPLY missed! While I gave a 5 week notice to be able to clean up some of my projects and help with orientation, it didn’t escape my notice that it also meant that I would have at least some days off this week. So this will be a 4 day weekend for me and then I have one other one for the July 4th holiday. Gotta love higher ed and summer schedules! Not quite the same as having the entire summer off but it sure is better than working 40 week in and week out.
Something else happened that has never happened before and probably won’t again for the very long future. I got a $1500 bonus yesterday! An incredible surprise. I was pretty shocked in that I really appreciated the fact that they gave it to me even knowing I was leaving in a few weeks. I know it was given because of the work I did this past year but even still, I am surprised. And very appreciative. Now I have to figure out if I should spend or save. A part of me is thinking that I should spend it. Take a long weekend with DS before he heads back to school next September. How long before he will be too busy/not interested/moves away and I won’t have the opportunity? Just last night he was wondering what plans he should make for his future–his living arrangements, career, stuff like that. I think he is being a bit too anxious to get started on “Life” but it is easy to forget that he has always been this way and it is a part of who he is. ::::sigh::::: what to do?
