Ordo ab Chao

Weeks that are filled with rehearsals and performances are also filled with blocks of time to sit and wait. To take advantage of that gift of time, I've been reading (hardcopy—turning the pages—reading, not just listening to) Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol". A phrase that occurs frequently throughout the book is "Ordo ab Chao", which translates to "order out of chaos".

During this week of chaos, my car becomes my temporary home. I eat breakfast and dinner and, sometimes, even lunch in my car. I flip empty water bottles onto the back seat and drop excess papers from my folder onto the passenger seat. I shudder each morning, as I get back in the car, to see the state in which I left the car on the previous night. I don't like having a messy car, but during Hell Week, there are only a finite number of aspects of my life which I can control.

So now that Hell Week is concluded, the next tasks on my To Do list are to restore order to my car and start relearning the Messiah.

Oh, and finish "The Lost Symbol", which I'm enjoying very much. I like finding books that let me escape from my life. And I like books that are set in Washington, DC. "The Lost Symbol" is two for two.