Not Much to Do

Camp ended, I moved back to the city. I took 2 weeks to unpack, relax, get re-adjusted to life. And then I went back to the office, sat at my desk and just sort of stared off into space for a while.

I looked at some parent feedback forms, sent a few last emails from the summer, took care of some random odds and ends.

Usually this would be the time that I was planning the themes for next year and getting stuff ready for early bird registration in October. But camp isn’t going to be here. But we haven’t sold it. We haven’t come up with any ideas about the foundation.

I decided that we were going to keep ‘A’ on as a full time employee until October 1. The idea is to have her help me with all the end of summer stuff and the beginning of the foundation stuff. Except that there isn’t much left to do for the end of the summer and since we have no idea of what’s happening, we don’t have anything to do.

The board doesn’t have any answers for me. So ‘A’ and I have been professionally planning my wedding. We come into the office every day and are working hard. Camp is one giant event, or 10 week long events, or like, 90 days worth of events- however you want to look at it- so planning a wedding, even a whole wedding weekend, is what we know how to do.

I’m so excited for the wedding. I’m excited to marry ‘N’ and all the romantic, lovely, start our life kinda things.

But also, this is the ultimate camp event. And if camp has to end, this is the way I want to go out.

My family and friends- basically everyone I love the most in life are coming to camp to celebrate. Friday is the rehearsal, followed by a big cookout and campfire. Saturday will be the wedding. Sunday will be a brunch. Camp is going to look gorgeous. It’s going to be so fun. I am so excited. This has been my home away from home for 7 years. I am so happy that camp is part of this important day.

And so we’re planning a wedding with the same enthusiasm and creativity that we usually give to camp. I should probably feel bad about wasting company time, except that the “company” won’t exist soon. And the foundation will be great, I’m sure it will be great, but I don’t feel passionate enough about it yet to be concerned about the small amount of money our salaries are costing (and thus being subtracted from said future foundation).