Leftovers and Release
Leftovers and Release The Friday sun was brutal, the kind of August heat that turned my Rav 4 into a sauna even with the window shade up. I'd parked in the faculty lot that morning with the windows cracked, but by 4:30 the interior was an oven for the hot Texas sun. The steering wheel burned my palms. The seatbelt buckle could have branded skin. I didn't care. School was out. The 2nd week of school was behind me—meetings and training modules and the slow, grinding realization that school was in full swing. My classroom looks good and the students are setting into the routine I set for them. The only problem is I have too many students for the computers I have. Stress level 1000. But tonight was mine. I prepared my car for getting on the road while the air conditioning struggled to cool the cab. I pulled down the sunshade folded it and got my water put in the cup holder and I typed the message I'd been thinking about since lunch. On my way home. His reply came before the li...