So I havn’t been writing much in the blog lately, as you might have noticed because I have been using up nearly all my free radical creative energy researching various things on the internet that relate somewhat to home life, or my future. I feel this is owing to the fact that I desperately want to return home to begin my life with Robyn properly.
My Robyn, *grin*
After she returned to our house (sin Dov) living with Norman until I return, I have felt slightly juxtaposed in location. I go to school for my credits and then return home to spend as much time as possible on the computer doing things related to my life back home. I talk to Robyn on skype messenger so much I actually started to make her get tired of me at one point, because my excitement to communicate with the world was basically all channeled down to a single desire to tell her everything I was thinking or feeling or planning for the future. That can get pretty tiring for someone with a full plate and a life outside of simply going to school for 4 hours and returning home with no responsibility like I am doing for the moment.
I have been pretty positive feeling lately. All my exams have gone well here so far, holding an average of over 80% for the 15 credits I have stolen from this university so far. I managed to get away with very minimal studying due to living in a Spanish speaking country all I have to do to study is simply introduce some of the new grammar into my attempts at speaking with people, and they naturally correct me and either understand or look blankly at me like I just made fart noises with my mouth. When the latter occurs I know I need to work a bit harder at understanding a grammatical concept and usually just try to rapid fire out possible conjugations until one sticks. It seems if you cycle between ado, ido, adando, e, i, and o as suffixes to verb roots, one eventually works properly and they forget the rest of what you said. Also if you are having difficulty between Ser and Estar, you can just slur the verb and it ends up sounding fine to the listener because they impart thier knowledge of the language onto your words. This concept has been exceedingly helpful for me during my time here. I frenquently mix properly pronounced words (nouns, adjectives) with rushed slurred grammar so as to not draw too much attention to the syntax and more attention to the content. It works well!
I mentioned that I Have been fervently researching various home-like things lately… one of them has been coffee: I have learned more about coffee, espresso, beans, methods for prepartion, grinds, equiptment, and lingo than I had ever thought exsisted. This java paradigm began when Robyn asked me if it was ok to buy a coffee pot, since we didn’t have one. I took that as a challenge to learn as much as possible about coffee, and suprise her with the best coffee system I could afford. Hours turned into days, which turned into sleepless nights of reading coffee forums and barrista magazines, searhing for the secret to the “god shot”, that untennable bastion of perfection that all espresso strives to be, yet rarely is found in a lifetime of mediocre beans. The balance between brick red crema with luscious dark chocolate layered lovingly with lingering brown sugars, almond liveliness and wine like acidity, finishing smooth and syrupy with red fruits and hints of spice that hug your tongue, begging to invite another sip.
I make yummy things.
I managed to learn enough to decide on a purchase, I bought a DeLonghi perfecta 5400 super automatic, to be delivered to the house. ALong with it I ordered some beans from socialcoffee out of ontario. You are all invited to come over to my house for coffee any time you want and tell me what you think of the latest attempt at the perfect coffee. For the month of Sept I will be using the following bean ——>
People’s Daily Espresso
Luscious mélange of molasses, chocolate, dried fruit and vanilla with a nutty, creamy, syrupy finish. A monument to superior blending, our flagship espresso hails from Brazil, El Salvador and Ethiopia.
Stop by and lets chat over an espresso, or cafe americano!
Life Right Now: Musing and Drooling 