Thursday, March 15, 2007

Clustering, sleeping, cooking

I will have to decide very soon about Twee's invitation. Well, it wasn't exactly an invitation as there is a joining fee involved... an initial payment for the privilege of joining the group, and then a daily fee afterwards. She calls it The Joy of Self Discovery - which is actually an advanced version of The Joy of Writing which I took a year and a half ago (the reason behind all those wonderful poems, tee hee), and of course, the basic tool is "clustering". Twee is Barbara Gonzalez, famous writer and columnist for Philippine Star, also my writing teacher. As you can see I was not one of her top performers :) But if she feels I am qualified to join this advanced group it must mean something. Or maybe she just sent out the e-mail en masse to all her former students. I told her I hadn't been clustering much....completely out of practice.
As a matter of fact, just to get my clustering juices flowing I actually bought a yellow lined pad last Saturday complete with clipboard and very nice black pen. I sat at my desk, stared at the yellow pad, and started clustering around the word "stuck" - don't ask me why I thought of that word. Maybe it reflected how I felt about clustering.
Or maybe I just thought it would be a cool word, and that I would end up with really profound ideas that would cluster and break out into other clusters. Wrong, completely wrong move. wrong word. wrong move, wrong everything. I shall decide about Twee tomorrow.

School's OUT!!! and YES I get to sleep longer now. Luis' last day of classes was today. And Nikki's next week. Once that's over, I will go back to having marathon sleeping sessions. Can't wait!
Latest and greatest culinary discovery -- Delmonte's complete chicken mix. Tried it today and Luis heard bells. One pack has 4 mini packs inside - the marinade, the batter, the breading, and the gravy mix. dissolve, soak, coat, and fry...then voila! serve with gravy and you have the best tasting fried chicken ever.

Soooo.....clustering, sleeping, cooking - key words for today, March 15 Thursday.

I didn't talk about work. I forgot! It's just that it is so much a part of me, like breathing, that I don't think much of it anymore. Suffice it to say -- it's there. and it won't go away even if I dont think about it. It kinda operates on auto pilot now. know it like the back of my hand...WOW hopefully my boss Anton DOES NOT READ BLOGS.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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And I'm sure to be this way again

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And I'm sure to see your eyes again
Once again

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And I'm sure to sing my song again
Once again

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Until the day they die

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Once again
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Just one more time

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The story of my life
Is very plain to read
It starts the day you came
It ends the day you leave