It's Over

TSI is all over. A wonderful month of camaraderie, Shakespeare, scholarship, cuckold jokes, clapping in 4 syllables, beer, staying up late frantically trying to finish/perfect projects, and way too many experiences with ice down my shirt.

Yes, teachers are just high schoolers with better education.

I don't think I can even begin to explain what I've done this summer, and how much it means to me. I think the best thing I got out of it was something I wasn't even supposed to get out of it - I am now applying to grad school. TSI wants to teach teachers to be better teachers, but for me, it was about spending time in history, and I really have to get off my ass about going to grad school, and then getting into a PhD program. I also know what I want my thesis and dissertation to be about - I'm not going to divulge it right now, but it'll be in the Shakespeare realm. I love Shakespeare and history, so I'm going to mix them together.

I've been sad off and on. I've been wanting to participation in TSI for so long, and me getting accepted into the program created a fissure with the Cop (yes, his name shall no longer be mentioned). Now that it's over, I'm sad. I feel a void. I was in NY for a couple of days, visiting Christine and the baby (and trying not to get the baby sick... I've caught a sickness that I've dubbed the "TSI plague", due to the fact that many people got very very sick while they were here). NY was great, and it helped dull the sharp feeling of emptiness. But when I got back to DC today, I felt sad again. It's strange to be here with everyone else gone. I didn't go by the Folger, but I knew it would be sad if I did.

But I'm on a new mission. And it's a mission that I've been putting off for a while. I have to follow my dreams again!

Cheers!