Ideas, ideas

I have the problem of being burdened with overwhelming number of ideas to think and write about. So far, I have drafts of Jasper Johns, the significance of form, Sherlock Holmes, Introduction to artificial life, the concert I attended last friday, mathematical construct of complex dissipative systems, playing violin, and so on and so forth... And none of the ideas are complete to my satisfaction... All the increasing workload with the gradschool preparation doesn't really help matters either.

Sigh. They'll be done sooner or later.

Two interesting free events at the Met this week.

Wednesday
Medicine at the Metropolitan Museum—Ancient Near East and Byzantium
Discusses medical practices in ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Cyprus, and Byzantium, as illustrated by objects in the Museum's galleries. Intended for the general public; no medical knowledge is presumed.
David T. Mininberg.
Free with Museum admission.
11:00 a.m., Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall 

Friday
The Ambivalence of Interpretation: The Case of Poussin Landscapes
This lecture is made possible by the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.
Willibald Sauerländer, director emeritus, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich.
Free with Museum admission.
3:00 p.m., Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education

I'm defintely going to these.