It's been an interesting week. The chair of my department offered to "rehire" me in a new university process that would allow me to work two more years. I said "How kind of you to consider me as a candidate! No thank you!" I was able to change my summer teaching schedule to an 8 a,m, class instead of a noon class, thereby allowing me to watch my grands on Tuesdays and Fridays while their Mom works. Thanks, Dan! I went to Florida over Memorial Day and really enjoyed watching my dear friend Nancy (who teaches at a private K-12 school) grading research papers and creating tests while I read mysteries and napped. Nancy could retire, too, but I do believe she will hold out for at least another year, and maybe two. She thinks about money and health insurance; I think about how much I don't want to be in the university system. Retirement can't come soon enough for me, even if I will be poor. Well, not really poor, just in the same boat the other 99 ...