Today was one of those days where I felt like an adult.

I make a lot of lists. It’s how I get things done, and when I spend a significant amount of time working on things on those lists, especially things I don’t want to do, I gain a certain feeling of accomplishment.

That sense of accomplishment is what I feel like adulthood feels like.

I have a week of training next week, which has lit my ass on several things that I’ve been putting off doing. So today I proctored three exams, got forms signed that will give one of my girls at school a scholarship for the year, wrote a paper (Something I already thought I would never have to do again. I thought that was why I walked across a stage in a gown and was handed an empty certificate cover.) and made my colleague laugh at a joke that I made in French.

I rewarded myself by making macaroni and cheese and watching Mean Girls.

I needed a break from adulthood.