packing up and moving out

of my office that is.  All last week I've been bringing odds and ends of stuff home from my office: the family picture, the stuff that was hanging on my bulletin board. most of the items from my desk drawers, the fake plant from on top of the file cabinet, It's amazing how much stuff a person can accumulate in five years on a job.  Friday afternoon I spent a couple of hours cleaning out my files (paper and computer).  It's really good that our church recycles now.  Somehow throwing stacks and stacks of unnecessary paperwork into the big recycling bin seems less of a jolt than just tossing everything.  Day after tomorrow I'll start the week of training my replacement and I'm sure it will go well, but I can't quite shake the feeling that something I've tossed away will be the one thing she really needs. Ah well, in five days it won't be my problem.