(re)cycles

I drove back from Irvine earlier and pondered over randomness, in vile attempts to avoid dozing off at the steering wheel. San Diego warmly welcomes back the burgundy beast of a Camry.

The weekend was good, as it is always nice to leave the battle sites of La Jolla and see what's occuring in other news.

Anyways, the thought came up during the drive was the concept of cycles, and how everything can be a cycle. Almost too simple. Frisbee is a cycle, a back and forth game of offense and defense; same with basketball, and all sports to that matter. Even movies that are being made are repeats of old movies. The oscars are today. I hope dark knight wins a shit load of awards.

Music is a cycle, songs. And not just the songs themselves, but what you listen to and also whenever you listen to something new or something from the past. Life. The circle of life. Recycle, reuse, reduce. Trash it. Get a new one. Or even more cliche: wash, rinse, repeat. When something breaks, repair or get a new one. Man, this post is sounding more and more like a uber-tacky-being-high post. But whatever, the title of the blog speaks for itself.

My life is currently measured in terms of quarters, frisbee seasons, and science experiments. Once I graduate, what will i measure my life in? Whatever the process I undergo i guess...

"For I have known them all already, known them all:—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?"

So...how should I presume? Vorsicht bitte.

But then what keeps us on our feet? If everything is a cycle, how do the periods change? How do you break the cycle? Maybe you cant, and you just have to alter the formula of your sinusoid. After awhile, if you keep doing the same thing, you're a broken record...which can be good if the cycle is getting all A's or watever. But is that why we strive for perfection? I'd suppose that even once thats achieved, one would become bored. What'd be next?

So perhaps thats when its time to try new things? For me, the hardest thing to do is to make a choice, after tons and tons of thinking and overthinking. Change something so your period is different? Maybe increase your amplitude? Maybe if you're resonating with something, change your style so you no longer resonating. Likewise, the opposite applies. Flexibility.

We cycle with everyone else in this great machine of a world. Hopefully mr. obama isn't fucking shit up. Just fund the lab and the Chinese and I'll try my damnest to obey the law.

I played Frisbee today (not much of a surprise) and was very erratic. No drops, but poor decisions. Terribad.

And to finish, heres a poem auf Deutsch:

Der Lorelei (Heinrich Heine, 1822)

Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten,
Daß ich so traurig bin,
Ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt,
Und ruhig fließt der Rhein;
Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt,
Im Abendsonnenschein.

Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet
Dort oben wunderbar,
Ihr gold'nes Geschmeide blitzet,
Sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar,
Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme,
Und singt ein Lied dabei;
Das hat eine wundersame,
Gewalt'ge Melodei.

Den Schiffer im kleinen Schiffe,
Ergreift es mit wildem Weh;
Er schaut nicht die Felsenriffe,
Er schaut nur hinauf in die Höh'.
Ich glaube, die Wellen verschlingen
Am Ende Schiffer und Kahn,
Und das hat mit ihrem Singen,
Die Loreley getan.

beautiful. ive been in the rhein but never have i heard of the lorelei.

Also, I began my meditation training on Saturday with my mother. Apparently people who've been meditating for a long time (so like "master" status) have been shown to float off the ground. The closest rendition I have is smoking pot. I guess i'll have to see for myself. Hopefully meditation will help me focus better and become stress relieved. I've already envisioned myself meditating on the sideline before games. Its going to be awesome. Step 1) Sit indian style with hands in lap. step 2) Breathe in and out. Step 3) Count to 10. Step 4) Breathe in and out. Step 5) Count to 10 again. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.