peanut butter burger

My friend, Kat, and I decided to have dinner together last night. For reasons I can't explain we ended up at a place called the Corvette Diner, which is a loud 50's themed restaurant, with rude help, and neon covering the walls. We both realized early that we would never be coming back there again, so when i saw some diner food I'd never heard of before I decided to seize my one chance to get it. There was a burger called the "Rory" Bacon burger with peanut butter. An adventerous eater like myself couldn't resist. Besides, i have a good friend named Rory who I used to ride bikes with in Taiwan. Rory was man enough to bike-trek his bicycle from Hong Kong to Tibet (seriously) so I figured I could at least manage eating a pb burger with the name Rory. I hoped Rory would approve of my daring even though he's a vegetarian. It was odd having a burger that stuck to the roof of your mouth. I wouldn't call it delicious, but I wouldn't say horrible, either. At least not until i was driving home and felt a stomachache.

a great day

I know I blogged about rain a few posts ago, and I thought it was lame at the time. Now I'm blogging about clouds, which is even more pathetic. San Diego weather is clear sunny skies most every day, so on a day like today when we had clean fresh air after the rain last night, then billowy clouds today I guess I couldn't help but notice. the life on an independent consultant is great. i went in to work for two hours, then made myself a sandwich and drove to the beach to eat it. I sat on top of the hill that slopes down into the sea and slowly made my way through a turkey sandwich. I guess it doesn't take much to please me. Clouds and a sandwich.

Poet Tree

the ride this week was awesome. a friend of mine cut my derailer cable, hoping to replace it for me. when we realized we only had brake cable to replace it we picked a gear in the middle and we went out to cruise. its been about three weeks since we rode, and I realized how much I've missed it. a single speed is all you need most of the ride is through switchbacks with some climbing, but lots of twisting around back and forth. we rode on really soft ground through what's left of the bushes that got burned up in last year's Cedar Fires. At one point, I cut through a right turn and didn't cut enough. the branch caught me a half inch from the narrow point of my eye. Its cool. I've been telling people I got in a knife fight. As I rode, I was prepping for the next day's class on Digital Video Poetry. the class was designed for English teachers to show ways they could use iMovie to breathe life into their poetry classes. we added still images, music and then had the choice to use voiceovers, or transitions, titles, or effects. it was up to us what we wrote about, and what was expected of us. I chose to do a poem about poetry that turned out pretty well. It makes me laugh to write a poem about poems. You can read it below... I wrote it the first 20 minutes of class In this video, you will see different parts of poetry. Today we'll see three, so don't forget the first example's a couplet. The second hits your imagination. Repeated sounds are alliteration. The third example, if you're keeping score, is what we call a metaphor. We start off with words that rhyme poems will do this some of the time. When they rhyme two lines you get, what English teachers call couplets. Poems have something else called meter words have beats to please the reader. When we open up our book, we'll learn about a thing called foot, another way of saying stress- the syllable you like the best. Poems are fun. The terms, too stoic. But we will learn couplets heroic. Big bold bad bruisers with words which whisper. When sounds stuck side by side show students such sentences all authors allow alliteration. A metaphor is warm banana bread. When the smell hits your nose and fills up your head with words that compare two unrelated things. They're effective for the feelings they bring.

long time

I've been too busy to blog. What a shame. I've had great stories to share lately... from the back injury that led to 2 new holidays, to a new shock to my bicycle, to booty on the beach. Its mostly getting hammered with work at my 3 jobs that keeps me from posting more often, but the nine units of grad school help out a lot too. I've been standing in as a professor, even.. which has been cool. All the hard work has been worth it. I spent this past saturday at a class on Digital Video Poetry... amazing that I can get credit for my masters for writing silly poems. If I didn't have a meeting with our Senior Vice President at the bank tomorrow, I may be more inclined to sit down and write some verse. Hopefully I'll be able to write poems at some point this week. I think it helps that I have a crush on one of the girls in my class.