Done?

Its been a long day.
Correction, its been a long year.  I feel drained.  Dead.  Flat.  I've spend so long fighting to prove myself, and now I have.  This morning I was standing in a group of almost 600 waiting to wait.  Waiting to sit in a crowded and stuffy gymnasium and wait our turn to receive a piece of paper that validates our hard work.  Well, for me it was three pieces of paper.  As with many of my peers, I walked twenty feet across a stages to receive a Bachelors of Science in Education, specifically a Lutheran Teacher's Diploma, with an emphasis in Theology and History.  And if that wasn't enough, I got a Bachelors of Science in Theology, too.
No more going to classes.  No more papers to write.  No more pulling hair out trying to get things at the library/registrar/computer lab set up.  I am done with the traditional education experience.  I have graduated.
So, I'm done now, right?

Yeah, right.  I've just barely scratched the surface of my learning.  I'm still in "limbo" regarding my future classroom.  And this adventure known as being a husband and father has only just begun, and is starting to get really interesting.  As if it wasn't already.

Well, this stage of life has come to a close.  Its been fun, but it has been a struggle.  And I wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

Per ardua ad astra!