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42 days to go? No, 43. Leap year. I am still alive and kicking after almost three years of this. I have never stuck with anything as long as I have stuck with this. It must truly be therapeutic for me in many ways for me to have stayed the course for almost three years. There's a joke online about tumblr - read my tumblr when I am gone, it will explain everything. I think in my case you would need to read this, my tumblr, instagram, and a couple other things but even then you would only get a partial picture of who I am. Some things I will take to the fucking grave.

So Ohio. I feel like I am back in North Dakota on one of the summer vacations X2 and I took to visit her family. It's so weird out here. I don't think I could ever live in a place like this. I don't know. It's the driving 30-40 miles to get to the next 'major' city thing that strikes me as odd. I am so used to things being crammed together tight that when you have to drive for 15 miles before you see another house it's bizarre to me. It took me 45 minutes to get to my client yesterday and it was only 30 miles away. They all think I am nuts staying oh so far away too. Most of the students in my class live under 3 miles away from the college. On one hand it is kind of relaxing though. No real traffic to speak of driving, just miles of nothing. Then boom you're in a small town and then it's gone. One high school, one bait and tackle gas station, then nothing again for another 10-15 miles.

Class went well I believed. I had a little bit of a scare in the morning when I realized I didn't have all the powerpoint files I needed. I managed to scrape them off our intranet just in the nick of time. Have about 12 students in the class and this for once is the only time where the whole class has been able to keep up with me. Nobody was way behind. I had at least two if not three people ahead of me. It's always a fine line balancing how fast I can go in a class when it gets over 4 or 5 people. You have to go at a pace that works for the majority while not losing others or having some get bored. In the end I think we did okay. Went from 8:30-4:45, and headed back to the hotel. I was going to go into Columbus, but by the time I got back to the hotel I was too tired of driving. Instead I ate at a 'Bob Evans' (which is Denny's meets Ihop meets Carrows), came back to the room and watched three episodes of Alcatraz. It's not a bad show. I started watching it when one of my co-workers suggested it on our DC trip. I have about 7 more episodes to go in the current season. Like I say, not bad. A little repetitive but otherwise entertaining.

That was my day. Alone, bored, and on the road. Some people aren't built for this kind of life. Me, not a problem. Frankly if it wasn't for the kid at home, I could easily spend more time on the road. Never have to get too close to anyone because you're always traveling. Never have to have permanent roots anywhere. I have the wanderlust and I don't deny it. Of course, I would probably end up going insane from lack of human contact after a while but screw it. I am already nuts as it is.