Long Long Time

I finally watched The Last of Us.  I am like that about everything.  In high school, I resisted listening to The Smiths until after everyone got refunds for the concert they cancelled before they broke up.  And then, I loved them.  I just have to think about things everyone loves before I try it out.  Because if everyone loves it, it is probably crap.  

I was working with kindergarten, while trying to juggle my third segment of Intensive English at the same time.  I have a lot of new students this year, not even counting my Intensive English kids.  I have been so distracted I haven't even mentioned it.  My kindergarten is huge, six girls and wildly diverse.  We hit every continent and I am excited about them.  Sajani stood out from the beginning.  Only four years old, wildly social and distracted, twirking in the hallways with a bindi on her forehead.  In trouble all the time.  Some of the Intensive English kids thought I was mean to her, which frustrated me, when I would make her sit at a different table when she was too distracting.  In January, she randomly grabbed my hand in class, looking serious.
"My dogs are in heaven."  she said.
I looked into her eyes.
"I'm sorry, Sajani.  My dog is in heaven too."  I responded.  We looked at each other for a long time.  After that day, everything seemed easier with her.  She also had made it through half of kindergarten and turned five.  

Cause I've done everything I know 

To try and make you mine

And I think I'm going to love you 

For a long long time....

My baby died six months ago today.  I think back on the last day and the days before, when we knew.  I wonder if I could have petted her more.  She seems so far away now and I would do anything just to know her presence again.  

And I think I'm going to love you 

For a long long time.  

Long Long Time, Gary B. Wright, popular by Linda Ronstandt