Just went on a nice five mile run around my block. It was icy and snowy, but the sun out. It made me think about how a year ago I was in perfect shape to run the Boston Marathon. I also thought that I would end up in Ithaca doing the math classes that I ended up taking with Syracuse. So many things change, I cannot wait for the marathon and math gods to explain why my plans keep changing. What is the aftermath of those changes going to be for them? Was it my aunt who would take both of my kidney’s and my favorite clothes, date my boyfriend herself, or really just the fait of the marathon gods? It’s really funny being flexible Evidently someone did not want me to do Philly, Trials or Boston last year or anything this fall, but I am sure top three in something in the near future will happen, even if it’s a Garmin half marathon by myself. All I know is I am happy that I can run a world major in the fall, and I’m in a three year program for the other thing. The marathon, relationships, and being in my academic and professional life, take years of building, which is why running is such a great metaphor for life.

I am thinking about asking one of my male runner buddies to pace me in a half marathon over the summer, so I can see how fast my legs can really move. With my successes there is always some kind of setback and rebound period. I feel so good after my five hilly brisk miles today, I love running by a gold course and overlooking the view from the peaks of my hills. 😍

I think I have a videographer to do my hobby violin solo video I have always wanted, it takes such a long time to sync music with a video, but I think he'll do it no matter how long it takes. He will actually be super excited to do it, it'll be fun. Even though it is so overdone by all violinists, we are doing Four Seasons. One season every season in one of our favorite places, over a year. Though very popular, it’ll be nice and make me happy. I am thinking about recording all of them in the summer and syncing them with the video of me playing them throughout a full calendar year. It will take a really long time, it could be a year and half thing, we shall see. They love watching me play the violin or run, so all that editing will be a cool project. Maybe for summer, I’ll run down the beach playing my violin, that would be cute… It is a really beautiful and appropriate project to be made. A lot of people do this as a career milestone with Four Seasons, it is really nice. Projects like this make me feel very nice and very professional, all those private lessons from age five really pay off later in life, I am so excited. 😁 A lot of my videographers videos are not classical music or pretty dresses in pretty places, but I think it will nice for him to work on this with me because it is a little different for them. I wanted to do this as my senoir project in highschool, but I think it is nicer being older and finally having it all come together, more soul to play the four pieces. I will probably do a little album of 3 minute snipets from my favorite pieces, for the full Madeleine collection, it is making me giggly. I am thinking about playing a few long notes on the organ, and doing some secondary rolls on the string bass to lay in the background of my violin piece, I’ll have fun with it. The cool thing about having to play string bass is that it inadvertently made me learn the cello too, I can play a cello piece on the string bass, like my violaist instructor always played violin parts on her viola for me. 🎻

Running is such a great time to think about plans and getting all your ducks in a row. I always feel like boss getting my ducks in a row whilst running. On the rebound, I am so looking forward to being the way I actually am again. 😊