So long to spending everyday counting down to now.

Ugly classrooms and dumb courses are done for now.

Maybe I’ll dance or

Maybe I’ll jump and scream

Even though when September comes, it’ll be back to the old grind.

Really, though, there are four months to relax.

Vacant? No...empty...empty documents on my computer are finally being filled and blank pages in a book are finally being written on.

Almost as if I had never written before.

Can you tell that I’m no longer stressed?

All my troubles seemed to have faded away...

To another day, perhaps.

I know that I’ll see these stressed days again.

Oh, but for now I’m going to...

Nap...as if I’ve never slept before.

Hand me my pillow and blanket

And advil for my back, which held those heavy books for five months too long.

Sitting in bed, my laptop in my lap, and music playing.

Calm breathing,

Opened eyes,

My God--it really has come!

Excitement fills as the realization hits: summer vacation has come.