Away

It’s been awhile since I’ve made a journal entry. I’ve been very busy the past couple weeks and haven’t found time to stay on track. I’m writing this on a laptop in a hotel room in Fairview after working 13 hours. Over the past 10 days I’ve been home for 3 of them. I was in Calgary last weekend and in Jasper for most of last week on vacation. I got home at 7:30 last night and left for Fairview this morning at 6am, I won’t be back before Thursday. My Jasper vacation was a blast but I’m not happy to be out of town working right now, I feel like I’m falling behind in things and I can’t teach my class.

Being away from home for awhile and it being under varying circumstances (party pleasure, nature vacation and work) has made me think about routine and free time. My routine has been completely broken and I haven’t been contributing much towards a few UBBT goals. I could be making better use of my free time, I haven’t been completely wasting it at least, but being out of routine has been making certain things difficult, like pushups. I could be doing pushups right now in the hotel room but I don’t feel like queering out my co-worker right now and explaining everything, I’ll probably end up doing it tomorrow anyway though.

I think a person can learn a lot about themselves and their work ethic when they’re forced out of their element. Getting put into different situations and experiencing different things can be healthy. It throws new perspective on everything and forces you it break form. This is what I really like about traveling, the way it forces you into dealing with life directly and without the ties that can often hold you down from habit. Seeing if you can still maintain your focus and work ethic under completely different perspectives can be very interesting.