another year

today i had my annual review at work... it went really well, which is cool. i felt pretty confident, and i got positive feedback. at the end of the day i met with one of my students from this semester so she could use my office's large format color scanner to document her drawings. apparently rich told both she and i that he intentionally placed her as my student, as he thought we would get along. i could see pieces of myself in her throughout the semester, and then today after we left my office, she was chatting about her summer plans, and i swear it was an echo of me several years ago... i'm really going to miss having her in my class. i finally realized today that i really want her to do well because of this similarity-- i hope that didn't come out wrong. seriously, though, it's like i want to warn her of things, and encourage her to try things, and i just want her to be great, without her thinking i'm creepy for having an interest in her well-being. :)