Jam packed day and boy am I beat. I gotta make this short so I can get soem sleep. I ony got about 4 hours sleep last night because I satyed up working/playing on the computer. I was not ready to wake up when Chai started pawing me at 6:15 AM..  I stayed in bed and meditated for about an hour then slithered downstairs. I took Gabe to school then came back and worked while Diane taught her Thursday morning Yoga. After Yoga, our friend Betsy came in for a nice visit. We talked about how kind and sensitive folks have been to our feelings around Kate and Brandon’s deaths. It was interesting trying explain how we felt.. So many folks are worried that these new tragedies will somehow open old wounds for us around Sam’s death. It’s true, we are deeply saddened by the loss of these great kids… Our sadness though is for the kids, their families and our community. Not for us. It’s not that the situation doesn’t remind us of our own loss..  everything reminds us of that loss. It’s that we know where we are now. We don’t need to be protected from others pain.. we want to be there for them as others were there for us. I hope that makes sense. Anyway.. it was a good conversation. Sometimes it really helps to try and put thoughts like that into ords.. it helps crystallize your thinking.

Speaking of crystallized.. I nearly crystallized when Diane and I took Chai fro a run. I was dressed for  about 10 degrees warmer than it was.  I nearly froze.. especially because we had to stop to play with Chai’s friends.

Interesting to see lots of new beaver activity out by the river . They recently dropped a huge tree across our running trail. Beavers are both industrious and impractical  That’s why they’re the MIT Mascott..  (“Beaver, beaver, build your damn, who’s the best school in the land ?“..  What were they thinking ?!

We dawdled a bit too long outside and got home at 10L48. I had a big meeting to drive at 11. In those 12 minutes, I managed to 1) move my science equipment from the station wagon to the van, 2) shower, 3) shave, 4) brush teeth,, 5)  (almost) get dressed and 6) eat something resembling breakfast. I say almost get dressed because half way through my meeting I realized that my shirt was on inside out..   I’m pretty hopeless.

I had an extremely focused and productive day after that. I spent a few hours at Champlain working with the students on our project. It all has got to be done in the next week and a half or so. I don’t know how that’s going to happen.. but it should be fun. I’m really loving working with those guys. BTW, Ann and her team were written up in a great article in Seven Days this week . Check it out. the piece had some great artwork by the students there . Including this on by Nick who will be interviewed for our project.

It was really fun hanging out with Gabe tonight.. we were pretty goofy.