Last day of summer school

Today was my last day teaching summer school! I finished at Columbia last week, and then had one more relaxed week of teaching Pace. My last class was this morning, from 10am-12pm (Pre-Graduate Academic Reading--sounds fancy, right?).

In honor of the last day, I made a special trip up to Penn Station to get KRISPY KREME donuts for my students. This was a really great class, so it was worth it to spend the money on them. Plus, I had a Groupon for $20 worth of Krispy Kreme donuts which I knew I couldn't spend completely on myself. 

I can practically smell the sugary sweetness just looking at this. 

Then, I got home and had to motivate myself to tally up final grades (students gave presentations today) and officially submit them. London (our current foster cat) was not helping.

Crazy eyes. 

The kind of exciting thing is that I will be teaching at not one, not two, but THREE schools come September! I was offered a reading/writing class at NYU. It's going to be a little stressful adapting to another work environment and taking on a brand new course, but I think it'll be worth it. 

But before that happens, I want to enjoy some vacation time. I'll mostly be staying in the city, although Ari and I have plans to visit Philly for a night next week, as a kind of mini-vacation (I have hotel points we can use!), and then we'll both be in Colorado at the end of August for Cammy's wedding (!!!!!!!!!). I can't wait. 

Rock rock, Rockaway Beach

Had a really nice beach morning today. Got up and out the door by 8:15am to book it to Rockaway Beach before all the crowds got there (it was still pretty crowded). I met up with my friend Jacky and her friend Caroline, and we alternated jumping in the refreshing waves and lying out in the sun. And of course avoiding sunburns! 

The boardwalk. 

Caroline and Jacky. 

View from my towel. 

Unintentionally dreamy selfie (sunscreen on the lens)

Ridiculous photo

The best part of the day? We saw dolphins! They were a good distance from the shore, but we could see them pretty clearly as they jumped out the water. They swam parallel to the shore for quite a ways before we lost sight of them.

I DID it!

Well, as some readers may have noticed, I haven't blogged for a couple of days. That was my unofficial celebration of completing my 30-day challenge! I am pretty proud of myself for only forgetting one day (dang that one day), and I even tried to make up for it by blogging an extra day. So I did 31 days almost consecutively.

Now that I've gotten back into the swing of things, I think I will attempt to blog at least a bit more frequently than I had been. Here's hoping I can keep it up without waiting another 6 months!

The next question is: what should my next 30-day challenge be??