The End Has Arrived

This day has been looming over me for a couple months now, the day when I would finish Highschool, and now it has arrived. The last couple weeks I've slowly finished off books and yesterday the last paper was written, now I'm done. It's hard to grasp the fact that I won't have school on Monday, that there aren't more papers to write and won't be until I get my summer assignment for Honors. The only regular part of my school day left is piano practice and even that will change in a week when my recital is over.
I've been gearing myself up for this day, June seemed so far away last August when I started my Senior year, and now I'm done. And my year didn't even end with a bang exactly, the subject just tapered off until I was down to literature and the writing that comes along with all those great books that I've been reading. It's so strange to think that from here on out I won't be handing work in to Mama, that next fall I'll be heading off to school each day, that in four years my formal education will probably be over, unless I have a drastic personality change and decide that I should pursue Grad. School, but I don't think that is very likely.
Now the summer is looming ahead, well not exactly, the summer will loom ahead after my graduation/senior recital next Saturday. And I'm already making plans for how I will fill my days. There's a mission trip on the board for July, and our annual visit with the cousins, and work, I'll still be putting in a couple of hours at the tea room. But there is going to be a good deal of extra time over the summer and I can simply concentrate my efforts in filling it up. There will be time to garden, we have a beautiful new house but the yard is in need of some attention, I suppose I could help it out. There are years worth of pictures just waiting to be scrapbooked, and lots of yarn in the closet that should really be used up before I go buying anymore. And of course there are books to read. I don't generally make reading lists, but I'm thinking that perhaps since there will be so much time this summer it might be to my benefit to make up a list of the books I'd like to read, besides, even if I don't read the books, I like to make lists. It's so much easier to get things done if you have a visual list to run through every so often even if the things you do don't have to get done, there's just something about having them written down that makes me happy.