This weekend, I spent eleven hours in meetings. Perhaps agreeing to be on the board of directors of both HacDC and Chado Urasenke Tankokai Washington DC Association this coming year was not so smart an idea. I am feeling overwhelmed. It's not so much the meetings themselves that overwhelm me—neither group holds organizational meetings very often—as it is the responsibilities I've accepted. It's making me worry whether I'll have time to do things like read a book, take a walk, or plant a flower. I can only hope I'll look back on this entry as an anomaly, a time when things just happened to pile up, rather than a sign of things to come.