Day 4,134—Music Today—

 

My phone told me I had only slept 2 hours last night, which makes me wonder if my wife was awake because I knew I was asleep for the 5 and a half hours I was in bed. I have already decided I will be running in Lone Elk on Saturday. I need to run on a trail again. It has been too long. I started reading the paper on my phone when I got up and read an article saying that Bob Dylan had recommended the artist MGK. His moniker sounded familiar, but I have never heard of him, so I listened to his new album and some of his old hits while I was running. I liked a lot of it, but it doesn’t feel like rap. It is more like something by Alec Benjamin, where the indelible emotions are on the surface with only a hint of depth. It seems odd to me that Dylan would be a fan, but he loves American music in all forms, so evolutionary is this where music going?

So, my run went by quickly and I paced the first five faster than I meant to, so I had to walk some hills or risk being dehydrated. I pounded two cans of La Croix when I got home but it still didn’t satisfy. I spent more time on the Badger video last night and it is getting closer to being done. All I have is titles and music left. I compiled the complete version of the race report this morning when I realized I hadn’t written a title yet. Will it be my best video yet?! I hope so. It will be different because I traveled with Travis, so I got some footage of us talking versus the usual solo recordings of early in the race. I was happy to get kind of a feature on Travis for the video, and I recorded a couple of other racers during the run that I was happy to get.

I have never seen a deer in this area before, and it was on its own, which is odd because they’re normally in groups. I am so spoiled getting this extra time to myself because starting next week at this time I will already be at work, and I am starting to feel excited. I presented to my school yesterday about my position, and not everyone, but I could tell some people were listening. I have such a low opinion of myself that it is hard not to assume that everyone else is thinking the same thoughts I do, so learning that they’re not helps me believe in that version of myself other people see.

 

Be on the lookout for the Badger video! It will be published hopefully tomorrow.