Nothing’s as grounding on a month long rehearsal-performance period as a good run. Since it’s so gorgeous right now here in Princeton, I’ve been running a lot. With more mileage than my knees are used to, I wanted to run on dirt rather than pavement as much as possible, so I went trail sleuthing on the internet and hit the jackpot. In addition to the famous canal towpath, there’s the Institute for Advanced Studies trails frequented by Einstein (coming from Los Alamos, I love that young post-doc scientist housing looks the same all over the country) and the Mountain Lakes trails north of town. 
To keep track, I’ve been using Mapmyrun, a fab web application that lets me measure and plan a run so I know roughly how far I can go before I should hoof it back in time to get ready for rehearsal.
And then after rehearsal, there’s… The Bent Spoon. 
Tucked into all the shopping on Palmer Square, The Bent Spoon has some of the most delish ice cream on the planet and they often use seasonal fruit from nearby Terhune Orchards. The classics are amazing, but it’s the weird stuff that really gets me: Dark Chocolate Earl Grey. Lavender Mascarpone. Ginger Chunk, Honeydew Sorbet. I brought a very discerning 80-something year-old fellow ice cream snob and she said over her scoop of Dark Chocolate Orange “I will be coming back here.”
