Today I woke up around 2:30 and immediately decided to go back to sleep. This is an occurence which happens fairly often actually. I turn over and medidate in a sleepful rest, then awaken again, off and on throughout the night. Perhaps it's not the ideal , but it evidently works. It's juxtaposed against those times when I sleep for days on end and nothing can rouse me, for better or for worse. What can I say, I'm project oriented and cyclical.

The point of this being, I decided to actually get out of bed around 5 and get some exercise. So of course I immediately sat down at my desk and typed up about ten pages of notes on the Pentateuch that I've been researching. I've always enjoyed the Pentateuch, but being 42 it's embarassing to realize how little I've known about it all these years.

So I finally head out to the gym, since we have a workshop today and it doesn't really get going until 8:30, and the air is positively frigid. Yesterday was warm as could be, around 83F, then this morning is about 48F with a strong, damp, chill wind blowing from over the lake. I struggled heroically onward though, and managed a workout and a full day of activity.


posted by David Greenleaf at Wednesday, April 09, 2003