The 4th Quarter. For me, now, it's the final term of the school year. It has been a term I used when playing basketball in High School. I've never been a football player or watcher, so the four finger salute holds no superstitious power with me. Q4 was an annual segment by which I paid my taxes when I owned my own business and the quarter I took stock on how the agency was doing. Each year I broke even with enough for comfort in the kitty. It's also dangerously close to that season of my life...
Today was the first day of the '14-'15 4th Term at LHS. I've only three more sets of quizzes to grade before they have to be locked and loaded in the district computer by High Noon on Thursday, so I'm feeling quasi-relaxed. My 2014 taxes are complete and I've received my State and Federal refund checks. And, Game of Thrones resumes this weekend, snow is in the forecast for tomorrow and I can feel my own Winter coming, while at the same time savoring the human autumnal season.
Where does Q4 start for me, I mean really. One set of grandparents didn't make it out of there 60's-70's, while the other made it deep into their 80's. Both my parents are living, vital, active, healthy people. So I guess for me it could be less than a decade (grandparents minimum age) when I am hip-deep in Winter, or as late as two decades when I stroll into Winter. I'm hoping for the latter.
Either way, I feel Winter Coming. On the one hand, I embrace it. I'm enjoying coming into the full Fall fruit of my powers. I can physically do most anything I want to do. I'm active in the life of the mind and feeling relevant. My big question is will I have some one to share it all with before I enter Winter? In the same window of a decade (worst case scenario), I envision my children developing their flight feathers and eventually leaving the nest (although I've heard so many boomerang stories, I'm won't be surprised if the return frequently and for spells of time). In just over a decade, 12 years to be exact, I think I could retire (if all things stay as they are and I down size the scope of my nest). Then I can see a pleasant 4Q. Will I want to share my small space with someone special, if that person presents himself between now and then? It's been three years (4/12ths) that I've been single. I've been on 4 dates. At this rate my odds of still being single are high....
Yet I see a sunny 4Q. The books of Game of Thrones compile a fantasy series called the Song of Fire and Ice. I guess I see myself a bit as the Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains. Yet when I take the crazy Facebook quizzes, I always come up as Jon Snow! They are both characters who are coming into the Q2 powers, so I"m fooling myself to make any comparison. But that is what happens as you get older. The mirror and epidermis tell you Q4!, while your imagination, energy and desires tell you Q2!
I've got to go to bed, as I have to wake at 5:30.....as I age 6hrs is my bare minimum on sleep to function.
Good night, Queens of fire and nearly Q4 Women, G'night.
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