Oops, I did it again! Yes, a couple of years ago a Picasso/Matisse exhibition came to the Triangle and I procrastinated so long that I ended up having to go into the show somewhere around 5a.m. (they held the museum open 24 hours for the final week). Such crowds that they were issuing entrance tickets for hourly intervals. Well, you guessed it. This time it's only one guy, Monet. And the place is so crowded that they are doing it again. And I have two tickets to get into the show at 5:30a.m. Sunday morning. I heard on the radio that 200 thousand people visited the Picasso show. I remember going to a Rodin show at the Art Institute in Chicago under similar circumstances, I mean not the a.m. entrance but large crowds of people viewing the work. I saw the Rodin in the evening.

Made a big change in morning practice. Starting with the second Wali Ali class, the breath class. I am having a hard time adjusting. Getting up at 6:10 and then doing Qi Gung for a while and then the wazifa and breath practices crowds me up against 7:30 when I have to leave for work. I see progress, though. I think I will split the practice to include some in the evening, otherwise I can't get it done. I have always been a late-night person, and it is difficult to go to bed before 11. I like to wake up at 7, not 6, but there is no way to do this now.