Leavin On a Jet Plane

Hi All!

Well, it's been awhile and October has flown by. This is now my last week at Lenape and I know it's going to be sad for me. This past week was a transition week for me, as I wasn't at work too much. The week before however, was chaos. Here's the highlights...

• Monday - went to push a stool away from tape table, got caught up in the rungs and fell hard to floor on my arse.
• Tuesday - my allergies reacted to the change in weather, which always results in a few days of head issues, followed by a few days of chest congestion issues. Hopefully, we are in the last few days of it this weekend!
• Thursday - driving in the new/used car mom bought Saturday, I was rear-ended by a 19 or 10 y.o. kid who may or may not have been text messaging and slammed into me while I was stopped at a traffic light on my way to cover a "home" volleyball game at our sister school. He was doing about 50 mph. Luckily, we were both o.k. but the car will be spending it's "2 months of no payments" at Collision Max getting the whole rear end re-done. Even though I was not at all at fault, I still feel bad about mom's car.

• Friday (the 17th) - Bill was in Michigan so I arrived at work to find kids waiting at my door and did not stop running until about 10pm when I put one of our FB kids with a Grade 2 concussion in an ambulance. It was a looong day.

Monday of this past week, Bill was still not fully "present" at work (in body, but not mind) so Monday was busy for me also. Tuesday, when he met with my replacement I think he realized how much I do and that there is many of our kids he doesn't know. I worked our 2 night games Tuesday and Thursday, but he was much more active and I backed off and let him do most of the work, so he could learn about our kids before I leave.

It still all seems surreal. It's been 1 month since I interviewed, but I've been so caught up in what's going on with my current job I often forget I will be leaving at the end of the week. Somewhere deep inside me, I hope the new job is good. It is hard to leave co-workers, coaches and supervisors you really like to work for, with and as people. The say the devil you know is better than the one you don't, but I am hoping to find at least some of the commeraderie at Riverside I have found at Lenape. I am a little nervous about running my own program and going to the unknown, more so than being excited. I am looking forward to meeting new people and seeing if I can bond with new students as I have with the old ones.

So, we begin the Halloween week winding our season down. Our teams will be entering the playoffs without me and I will be transitioning. Wish me luck. I am sure I will need it.

-Song by John Denver/Peter, Paul and Mary