Morning Routine

It's 6:45am and I have about 15 minutes before I have to get dressed and head out the door. Lately, I've been looking at work email before I go to work--big mistake! So, I'm trying to use this time for the blog. For today's mini-installment. The morning routine: I get up at 6am, make coffee, take a shower, eat breakfast, surf the net, get sucked into work email, panic about the time, get dressed, and head out the door around 7:20am. As you can see, I'm not moving very fast. Any faster, and I've learned that I forget things, drop things, and other silly stuff.
Then I walk downhill on the main road of the apartment complex to the gate where the minibus stops. If I see the bus coming from the top of the hill, I can usually guess which direction it's going, but it's smarter just to ask. It's a very simple question: Koç mu? If yes, then I get on and pay my 1,50 TL (which is about 75 cents) for the herky-jerky ride uphill and around curvy roads to the university. At the gate, the bus has to stop so the security guard can check our ID cards. In the beginning of the term, there were lots of students enrolling, so we'd have to pull over while the guard took IDs and returned with guest passes. These days at this hour, there are very few of us on the bus, and we all have IDs. There's a longish driveway into the main campus, and I get dropped off by my building, usually around 7:35. I head in and get my first cup of tea for the day (tea and coffee are continuously prepared all day long by the çaycı (tea maker) in our office--when she's not making tea/coffee or cleaning up, she's reading her book). The work day has begun.
The one important piece that's missing right now is EXERCISING :((((( I hope that changes this week. I bought cheap gym shoes last week, and I asked a couple people at work if/when they go to the gym, so the plan is getting closer to reality. Ideally, I'd like to get a yoga mat because the floor in the apartment is also the domain of ugly bugs, and somehow having a mat makes me think I'd be safe.
Anyway, it's 6:59, and time to get myself back in gear!
More tomorrow....