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Welcome to Anna in the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing
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of all the goings ons, ins, and arounds, arts, and ideas at Sudbury School.
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So today is the last day of the school year.
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It's the last day of this podcast.
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Right now, I'm watching the practice for the end of the year show.
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That's where a number of our students do some fun things for the crowd, and singing, and
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fighting, and dancing, and doing plays, and little quays, and whatever strikes their fancy.
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So it looks like it's promising to be a good show, and we're all excited here.
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Today we actually did have one last JC session.
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There's a couple cases, one of them took a while, but you know, as usual, our people
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showed up.
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No one even asked for a sub, so that was kind of cool.
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And, you know, they did a good job, and yeah, you know, it's interesting this last bit of
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day in relation to JC because, you know, there's a certain sense in which our rules kind of
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stop really being in effect in the sense that we can't enforce them, but still everyone
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agrees to continue to follow them just as they have.
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So that's exciting and good.
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So yeah, we've got essentially two and a half months of time off.
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I mean, this is, we've got one more week of June, and we'll be one week into September
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before we start.
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And so, yeah, and it's my last podcast, so I bid the farewell, Farewell Friday, the final
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Farewell Friday, and I don't know, it's been an interesting year.
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I guess I've kind of already said my spiel about the meta-ness of this podcast, and how
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I felt and the year and all that stuff.
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So yeah, I don't like endings, never have, I just like things to be done with and I start
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anew.
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But, you know, one of the things about endings is that you do get to do a beginning, some
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fashion or another, you can't have September without June, you might say, we've got to
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end in order to have the start of a new school year.
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So that's what we do, this is the start of the winter of our school, you might say, in
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terms of, you know, winter is kind of this time period where plants kind of lay low,
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you might say, and then, so they can spring up anew in spring, after they've fallen in
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fall.
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I got another one in summer, I don't know what that means.
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So, our summer is kind of like the winter for plants, where we're just kind of hanging
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out, doing our thing, recharging ourselves, thinking about it all.
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So yeah, so we will all go into our own little world in the summer and then we'll come back
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as a community in September, we'll have some meetings along the way, we've got an assembly
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meeting in the middle of July, and we've got a school meeting towards the end of August,
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so you know, and a picnic also in the middle of August.
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So that's, you know, hopefully we'll see each other over that time, we've got, you know,
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the staff have things to do around the school at times, but mostly it's just our own thing.
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Keep the fires lit, as they say, but it certainly is, the fires are dimmed, and of course we're
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doing graduation tonight, and that always makes me sad, since those people are pretty
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much gone, even if they come back and visit, it's not the daily community thing, they're,
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you know, they've moved on.
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Just is what it is, it's the hardest part of the job, it's just all the people that
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were around you and are no longer around you, and that feels difficult and challenging.
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So it goes, huh?
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Well, I think I'm going to call that a wrap.
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I don't actually know the final total for the hours, let's see, so I said on Tuesday
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that, let me see, so as of Monday I had 15 hour, I mean 20 hours, 15 minutes, and 15
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seconds, and then did 20 minutes, 28, 30, 36 more minutes, so that's 45, 51, with a
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little change, and we're now at 7 minutes, so 58, so basically almost right on the nose
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for 21 hours, I don't exactly know what the time period is, but I guess I'll just stop
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here, so 21 hours of podcast here, made this year, so enjoy, love you all, and you know,
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I will see you when I see you, bye bye.