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Today I attended the first AA meeting since moving to Utah, it was on zoom and 90 minutes instead of 60 but it felt good. I called my sponsor shortly thereafter who instructed me to stay in touch even if I’m getting fucked up. I planned on waking up around 9AM (I have the day off) but ended up sleeping until around 11:30-12, I’ve been sleeping in late when I don’t have work and it’s a habit I’m looking to break. To a lot of people 11:30-12 might seem late but despite only going to bed around midnight most nights I’ve been finding myself regularly waking up between 1PM-3PM, it makes me feel like shit and I just end up having an even harder time going to bed early.

I made a to do list today for the first time in a while and have checked off about half of the items so far, posting to Journey to 30 was on my list and I figured it would be a nice break from doing schoolwork. I did yoga today (again for the first time since getting to Utah) and it felt great, I plan on incorporating more yoga/exercise into my routine.

My MBA coursework has been about what I expected in terms of a time commitment and I have been doing a good job so far of staying on top of the workload, I do have several big projects coming up though and since it’s an accelerated program they are coming up quick.

I’m unsure of what I’ll do post-graduation, I’m currently debating going to law school or pursuing a master’s in economics (in addition to my MBA) – as my sponsor reminded me today there is really no point in thinking about things so far in the future.

I’m currently single and it’s the first time in a while, I haven’t been pursuing women like I normally would and I suppose the fact that I’m only living here temporarily plays a factor in that. I have a lot of things I would like to accomplish in life and not having to take someone else into consideration has been freeing. I’m uninterested in random hookups and am not going to waste my time pursuing them, there is only one girl here that I would even consider but again I’m only here temporarily and very much focused on other things.

Among my goals is to publish a minimum of three books during the course of my life, Journey to 30 will be one, I plan on publishing a collection of poetry and I would also like to publish a book on economics – specifically I think I would like to focus on the topic of utility (I would do this in retirement in conjunction with a PHD).

I’ve been writing a lot more which has been nice and I’ve begun looking into submitting my poetry to publications, unfortunately my desire to remain anonymous goes against a lot of their guidelines and given that my work isn’t famous yet it will prove to be difficult. Ultimately today has been a great day and I’ve been very happy lately; I think this suffices as far as an update goes and I’ll conclude with my day count.

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