How Do I Like Being Retired?

So much.

Technically I've been retired just over two months, since May 13, and if I hadn't retired not much would have changed on the surface, since I'd be on summer break now. 

But in fact just knowing I'm done with teaching has changed so much. I had no idea how much of my mental space the university was taking up until it was gone. I do still find myself making notes about how to teach this or that, or what reading list I might use for a given class, and then saying, well, wait.

I'm doing what I always planned to do with my retirement -- writing a lot, reading a lot, taking lots of walks. I am much busier than I expected to be, what with medical appointments, taking the kid shopping, and dealing with the dog.

Do any of you remember how in adolescence, and even young adulthood, we were so bored for so much of the time? Just endless hours to fill, and nothing to fill them with? Remember television? I remember lying on the couch in the living room watching tennis matches. That's how bored I was.

I was expecting retirement to be a bit like that. Not so far.