April 1, 2007
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I ran 30 miles this week. I forget if I've been running 3 or 4 weeks, or maybe 5. I guess it's good that don't remember exactly how long it's been since I started up again. (I've resisted keeping a running log, because right now I just want to get a consistent number of days under my belt, and that means all that matters is whether i'm running today not what I've done in the past or what I'll do the rest of the week.) I took a break today, although I didn't feel like I needed it. But I ran 6 days in a row, so I thought I'd let my body regroup, in the interest of not getting injured and screwing my long term chances of keeping this up.
So I spent my night off at the SD Symphony. The played Christopher Rouse's 2nd Symphony, which was a wonderful piece to listen to. I enjoy modern music so much -- even if some of it is kind of clangy and difficult to process on the first hearing, it's well worth it. I think it's especially good to see it performed live too -- with the Rouse, so much of my enjoyment was watching the spectacle... the string players sawing away; two sets of tympani along with the rest of the percussion section all beating down on their drums in precisely the same rhythmic pattern. It's a Fast-Slow-Fast piece, and the Adagio was actually very enjoyable. The fast sections were great too, but it was a lot of pounding and dissonance, so the Adagio was the one place where I could really close my eyes and medidate. Also on the program was the Liszt Piano Concerto #1 (second time I've seen it this month), and exercepts from Mendelssohn's Midsummernight's Dream, which is a terrific piece with tons of great stuff for the woodwinds.
I feel like my life has settled into a very regimented routine. I get up, go to work, come home, hang out for an hour, go run, shower, sit on the couch for an hour, go to bed. Repeat. I guess that's how working life is. And I enjoy work, most of the time, so I can't complain. I don't know if, in reality, it's any more regimented than school. But it feels that way. Or maybe I'm just now noticing that that's the way life is.
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