The proposal is submitted, the desk cleaned out, the posters off the classroom walls, the books packed in boxes.
There remain papers to be graded, packing to be completed, and the last (half) day of school to be enjoyed.
But we have definitely moved on from where we were last night. Yes, things are coming along.
For the future is hope, and out of kindness providence has given man time, so that he may live in expectation. –Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers, p. 793.