Busy-busy

A beautiful morning on the mountain today, with much sun, a cool wind, and much reduced humidity. Could bode well for the men's 10,000m this evening at Muhlenberg. Was hoping I could run that race, but so it goes sometimes. Much luck to Jatin and Sam.

It is also a busy morning on the mountain, the first since turning finishing the thesis. Preparations for the German skit and the Tafelmusik performance are both well under way, and with any luck, each task will flow favorably into the next. The performance around noon is followed by a run (hopefully), a small dinner, a dress rehearsal (playing the Mozart tomorrow, AHHHH!!!), and then a German dinner at professor's house. Busy-busy. Perhaps it was fortuitous that I didn't qualify for the 10k.

Busy times can tax the mind a great deal. I woke up this morning with at least four different lines of thought running at once. On the one hand that's pretty cool, since being able to think about four different things at once seems a useful adaptation for a world which demands so of our time and energy. On the other hand, four lines of thoughts at once rapidly wears a body out, and is about as useful as sprinting in the middle of a marathon. A timely surge can do much in such a race, but an all-out sprint is quite costly compared to its achieved benefits.

So after a busy stretch is finished, sometimes it is helpful to do a little house-cleaning in the mind, and put things back in order. Return to the center of things, as a marble sent whirling about a bowl returns to the lowest point of the bowl upon coming to rest. Just a little cleaning could go a long way :).
Happy Friday, the last Friday of undergraduate studies.