Ten Seconds Left on the Clock

Tonight feels like New Year's Eve. Each passing hour feels like another second gone down in the count down in slow motion. Tonight is my last night in a hotel. My travel job officially ends in less than 24 hours. No more schools, no more fabulous rental cars, no more giant king sized beds. Tomorrow at 4pm I should find out if my contract has been extended to be an application reader. Of course, I really want the job, but I am not getting my hopes up. Right now is like the final seconds of the big game. The clock has 3 seconds left, the ball is in the air, and the crowd is silent, waiting to see if it makes it in the basket. (Look at me and my sports references!) The decisions have really already been made; nothing that happens from here on out can really change the outcome. We just have to wait and see what happens.

At the moment, I am rather tired and not feeling particularly reflective or in touch with my emotions, so I will not be using this blog entry to discuss my final wrap up notes. I'll save that for a day this weekend, so be sure to check back later on. I will, however, say that since this travel job is pretty much over, it means that my blog is as well. When I first started this, I had no idea I'd have a solid reader base. I'm pretty impressed with myself that I have written well enough for people to even want to read it. I've been told the entries have gotten significantly better and more enjoyable as time has gone on. So Thank You!

Quite a few people have requested that I continue my blog even after my travel is done. The truth is, I truly enjoy writing it and I enjoy people commenting on it. I'm worried there won't be enough content for a separate blog or a continuation. After A LOT of consideration, I think I have decided on starting a brand new blog - one that will be updated less frequently. I will do a one month trial run. If there is enough to discuss, I will stick with it. If not, like a bad tv show, it will be taken down after a few episodes. I really like blogs with topics, not just ones that ramble on about a person's uneventful day, so I need to settle on a topic to write about. Please forward your suggestions! I have some life goals for after this job, but they aren't really things I want to blog about.

As for the fate of this blog, I plan on getting it bound into a hardcover book. I'd like to keep it as a souvenir of my journeys. Someday the grandkids might want to know how grandma crawled across a bathroom floor!


Here's some stats on my viewers - 1,608 views in total from the following countries. I'm impressed! Though, I know know what anyone in Singapore would want with my life. It's not that exciting! Maybe it's a good thing I always refer to my school as U-.....

USA: 1364
UK: 43
Canada: 22
Russia: 21
Japan: 20
Poland: 19
Singapore: 19
Germany: 16
S. Africa: 13
Kuwait: 10