I go back and forth on this issue: do I have a finite amount of energy to devote to my waking hours, or does success/stoke/desire in one thing translate and create energy in another? Sometimes it seems like doing well in school makes me do well training, for instance. Other times, I only have so much will to suffer, and it can only be spent on one or the other. If I do hard school work, I need time outside to be fun and rejuvenating. Sometimes doing intervals (for instance) is rejuvenating, sometimes the prospect is just not possible.
All of which is highly relevant as I try to cultivate reasonable bike shape, and finish up and be ready to present my portfolio three weeks from this afternoon. I can report that I haven’t lost it yet, but I have come close a few times.
This morning, during an email to one of my committee members, I did note that one of my ongoing foci with the thing was to do more to make it obvious how all the pieces fit into a “coherent hole.”
That slip was not entirely a coincidence at all, even though I didn’t mean to mean what I in fact meant, at least not right then.
Bedrock & Paradox 
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