I have actually done some interesting things over the few weeks. I don't know if you've heard of Matt Harding or not. He danced his way around the world and made a couple of fun You Tube videos out of it. Now he is being sponsored by Stride Gum. I'm actually not a huge fan of his. I don't consider spending just enough time to dance badly in a country travel. However I do like the idea and the message. The videos are great. So I decided to join him in his new video where he dances with groups of people. There were about 30 or so of us there. After we danced badly as a group my new friend Jenn and I danced badly with Matt. Please consider this clip the “before” video and ignore all the bouncing ripples of fat.
That same weekend was a BootsnAll weekend. Several of the bootie regulars flew into the city to hang out and sample New York's finest beer. It was a lot of fun, as you can tell from the pictures! I, of course, missed most of one of the nights because I had an early morning store that I had to make it to.
Recently I've been having really conflicting feelings about the trip. Don't worry, it hasn't been those “this might not have been such a hot idea after all” feelings. It's more excitement and nerves. Sometimes the trip seems eons away. During those moments 03.11.08 can't come soon enough. Other times I think that I have so little time and so much to do. It's overwhelming. On occasion I have wave of nausea pass over me. This is mostly related to the increasing fear of quiting my job. For the most part I like my job, and I'm good at it. I enjoy the people I work with and feel that my work is appreciated. I don't plan on staying in the same position forever (this company doesn't promote), however, leaving a nice comfortable job is going to tough. I'm glad that it will be difficult, it confirms that this trip is the right choice.
I used to hate my job. Getting up and going to work in the morning was horrible, enough to make me cry. Leaving a job, and a life really, that I wasn't happy with would make my rtw an escape from life and not an addition. It's much easier to run away than it is to stay. The difficulty of leaving the full time job and my full time life (including my wonderful boyfriend) and my willingness to do so reconfirms to me that leaving is not only the right decision but also a positive addition to my current life, and not an escape as some might think. No matter how hard leaving this life will be I know that it's the right choice for me.
As I mentioned in the September update, I will be traveling to Marrakesh, Morocco for a meeting with the full time job. I leave next Friday (yay, only 9 days away). I'm going to have a nice amount of time to site see and plan to blog it, just as I intend to do on my rtw. In fact, lets call this the test run of the blog. I'm going to call this “test” how the other half travels.
And to be consistent, I have 146 days to go!
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