Y7 D366

This is it. The last day of year 7. So much time has passed it's amazing. So many life changes in the last year. I once predicted it would take me 5 years to get out of the crushing weight of everything that was affecting me. I was a little off, but here I am. Still fucking standing 7 years later. How life has changed. Hell, I am currently in London right now. I have a wonderful wife who loves me very much and whom I love even more. I live in a much better place in a much nicer city. Friends are there and maybe I don't have as many local friends as I would like, but the people who are in my life are true and care for me. I can't ask for much more on that. Sure, there are still goals left to achieve and things to do, but I feel pretty good about how far I have come in the last 7 years. Good for me.

Day two of training yesterday. I wanted a taxi at 6:45am yesterday and for some reason this caused a bit of misunderstanding. The issue was my room is also 645. I confused them that I wanted a car at the same time as my room number. At 6:50 there was still no car. The night manager then stepped up. He was like "sir, come on, I will drive you to the tube." Just straight up in his own car, he took me to the train station. I was extremely grateful for this act of kindness. I was already stressing out since this was the first time I'd be taking the tube into work. But everything went off without a hitch, got to the station, 15 minutes later I was at the office, 10 minutes of walking around confused I found the door and someone let me in. I had one more student yesterday but I still ended up finishing right around 5pm. I decided to let commuter traffic die down before heading back which was a wise idea. I spent some time exploring the mall. During class the question had come up as to what the total square footage of the mall really was. Answer? 1.9 million sq ft. Holy hell. I then explored after work all of it. Yep. I walked the whole damn thing. Had dinner at a Caribbean place in the mall. Excellent goat curry. I paid for it around 1am, but man it was good.

Around 7 I headed back and then the hard part - walking back to the hotel. I got turned around and it took me an extra 10 minutes to get back to the hotel, but I made it eventually. Hung out in my room and went to bed around 10pm.

Day 3, probably a repeat mostly of everything I did yesterday. Tube, teach, eat, tube, sleep. I am looking forward to Saturday when I can explore. I have already figured out my tube route. Platform 9 3/4s will be found and shopped!

Time to get ready.