It is the night before the first day of school. I feel as if it is my last night to experience earthly pleasures before I venture into the land that from no mortal man returns. I have put my affairs in order - organized notebooks, cleaned out purses, and recharged my phone - and now have only left to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub.

For what dreams may come when we shuffle off this mortal coil...