and rimmed with runes of running laughter

Faith ever will I hold
firm, unyielding,
though strife and storm
stand about me.

Wait, what?

I wonder if you aren't the first person to knowingly, deliberately will yourself into a stuporous haze. Whatever on this earth ... 

I should be doing this.

Learn to banish the word "should" from your vocabulary.
One the one hand, do you really have so many "responsibilities"? Where did they come from, anyway? And if you start dropping them because there're too many of them to handle, how is that better than just cleaning disclaiming some of them in the first place?
On the other, there are many, many things that can be great learning experiences. Until you try to do too many of them at once, and then you'll be too busy to learn anything from any of them.
Bottom line: do less. Live more.  

But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought

Well put, sir. Very. 

... and there goes the semester!

Come to think of it this kind of knocks George's "shortest lines in PCT history" right out the window.

You should keep up this streak of randomness. I want to see where you end up.

不知量力

Maybe I'm just really greedy.
Don't be. You aren't going to able to do everything, and you're only going to mess up everything you're trying to do by trying too hard.
Or maybe I just don't deal with uncertainty well and try too hard to hedge.
But then of course such half-hearted hedging is doomed to fail. Just set your sights clearly, keep your wits about you, take a breath and GO. And never look back once in a while you can look back, but you really shouldn't be trying to move forward with your gaze on the road behind you, the other roads by the side, anything but the road in front of you. 

Swans on Water

The very picture of effortless grace on the surface, but underneath they're paddling furiously just to stay afloat, let alone move forward. 

Taking any route, starting from anywhere, / At any time or at any season

It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are hear to kneel
Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

En Saga

Or not really, but now I'm really curious about the Eddas. But anyway, to business.
Proposition A would endorse the Ankara plan over Warsaw, Krakow, or Copenhagen.
Proposition K would instate Kazan as the new Ottoman capital.
Debate.
Update. The answers were no and yes. Consider it made.