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Bikes, bicycles, biking
Mar. 25th, 2008 08:26 amThis morning my body woke up at a little past five, much to the chagrin of my brain, which had decided I could sleep in. I wish I knew why, but the physiological cause of the early-morning awakenings has always eluded me, aside from the vague idea that they're partly a product of my mind's fevered excitement about something.
The "something," in this case, is bicycling, I'm almost certain. Last night, the Tempe Bicycle Action Group had a planning meeting to organize ourselves for action. Another TBAG leader and I headed up a group interested in coordinating programs with the City government and working on advocacy. We talked about three projects: setting up a Bicycle-Friendly Business program, developing an improved geographical knowledge base (i.e. accident stats, potentially dangerous intersection labeling system, something connected to the Google Bike Maps project), and putting together a public education campaign. Though the projects will be a lot of work and there are still many unanswered question, frankly, I'm excited about them.
At the same time this is happening, I'm feeling a bit adrift about school. Those who know me even a little bit know I tend to get overcommitted, and I think I'm feeling the effects of my overcommitment in how I'm prioritizing (or not) my progress in graduate school. I just keep thinking about the remaining samples I need to sort, the photographs I need to measure, the proposal I need to write, and the elemental analyses I need to do. I wish I were better at organizing and tuning out distractions so I could just buckle down and get to work.
But I suppose that's what this morning is for.
The "something," in this case, is bicycling, I'm almost certain. Last night, the Tempe Bicycle Action Group had a planning meeting to organize ourselves for action. Another TBAG leader and I headed up a group interested in coordinating programs with the City government and working on advocacy. We talked about three projects: setting up a Bicycle-Friendly Business program, developing an improved geographical knowledge base (i.e. accident stats, potentially dangerous intersection labeling system, something connected to the Google Bike Maps project), and putting together a public education campaign. Though the projects will be a lot of work and there are still many unanswered question, frankly, I'm excited about them.
At the same time this is happening, I'm feeling a bit adrift about school. Those who know me even a little bit know I tend to get overcommitted, and I think I'm feeling the effects of my overcommitment in how I'm prioritizing (or not) my progress in graduate school. I just keep thinking about the remaining samples I need to sort, the photographs I need to measure, the proposal I need to write, and the elemental analyses I need to do. I wish I were better at organizing and tuning out distractions so I could just buckle down and get to work.
But I suppose that's what this morning is for.
