Starting to realize...

That soon, nothing will be the same. I have a certain routine. Get up, make coffee, turn on TSN and check emails/facebook/trirudy/slowtwitch. Then the focus is on my day's workout(s) (typcially the plural). What is it? How long will it be? Intensity? Focus on technique? All I have to do is work around my work schedule (where I get to think about my own training and talk to people who are into fitness and some who even run marathons and do triathlon also). All of this comfort of familiarity will be out the window. Today is basically the last day of this life I've known for a while now. By Friday I'll be on the other side of the planet, where nothing is familiar. Where I'll have 8 billion other things on my mind other than training and training may be the only thing that keeps me sane. No TSN, pretty much the only channel I watch on TV. Sure they'll have a dedicated sports channel, but I don't care about Aussie rules football, soccer, cricket... things of that nature. I'll miss this familiarity, these daily comforts and routine that I take for granted. It gives you a certain amount of confidence in knowing that things will be more or less the same, and you can focus on what you WANT to change that day. In a week, we'll have no choice, everything is changing. I'm starting to doubt that I want to go back to school, and that I want to be a teacher, but of course I do. I'd love to be a teacher, and I miss school, it's just that everything compounds and makes the whole proposition a little overwhelming.

We leave tomorrow for a 5 hour car drive to Toronto, sleep over tomorrow night there. Get up Wednesday and get to the airport for like 8:30 and fly out at noon. First flight is Toronto to LA, 5:33 duration, arriving in LA at 2:30PM Pacific time. We then chill out there for 5 hours and fly out at 7:30PM on a 13 hour flight to Auckland. Arrive in Auckland January 9th at 5:25AM their time. Ya, goodbye January 8th! Another hour and a half layover in auckland and we leave at 7AM from their and fly 3:30 to Sydney and arrive at 8:30AM Sydney time. THENNNNN, we take a 90 minute ride from the airport to campus. THEN I go for a run. Get some sort of "normality" back in my life.