The first day back at work is always the same... My schedule is off, I have been oversleeping, can't sleep the night before, and I come dragging in exactly on time (or a little after) and everyone is SO EXCITED TO BE THERE!!!!!
The students have been planning, hoping, dreaming, and scheming about coming to "live" on the Scooba campus of East MS Community College... Some are returning freshman, a little more eager than they were in the fall with more assurance in their faces....The 2nd semester sophomores, signing up for those last classes that lead up to graduation...and then there are those students that suddenly realize that all the fun they had the last 2 semesters have caught up with them and they are desperately trying to figure out how to hang in there or find an alternative to what can be done...
Tears, laughter, interspersed with terse moments when time holds them in limbo and the lines seem to never move!!!! and tears of rejections that may or may not have been of their own making... finding the right "piece of the puzzle" to give them what they need...
So much more important than finding the "perfect piece" of material for a quilt, or the perfect pattern for the vintage cloth...very similar to solving puzzles, problems, whatever.... I love the finished product... I love a finished quilt, I love graduation, I love the ends of the semesters, I love it when my students do well.
I do so love my students,, my job, my life. I have 2 puppy dog quilts I need to finish,,, my husband fixed a frozen pizza for dinner. I am so, sew, seaux, sough, pseu- tired...