WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

Breakfast at Baruch for me is just like breakfast anywhere else. It doesn’t exist. I do enjoy a hot beverage in the morning, no matter the weather. This morning in particular, I popped into My Way Cup (102 East 23rd st), which is known for their coffee, to pick up some tea. The reason being that they carry mighty tea. I had a craving for the Citrus Chamomile. Mighty Tea makes a particularly satisfying balanced blend that doesn’t prompt me to remove the bag the second it sinks into the water. It can hang in there as long as I feel like dwelling over my beverage in enjoyment. A well chosen alternative for their staple.

Long Branch, by Dane Clark and Linsey Stewart, is a short film about a potentially long relationship.   The film opens with our lead characters making out in a tunnel with a car driving past.  Our female lead (name still tba) bluntly asks the guy if he would like to have sex, in a much more crude fashion than we’ll touch on here, to which she receives a reply that is expected of any straight male; yes.  Her roommate has people over so they have to go back to his place – as he checks his phone for the time, he asks how good her shoe’s arch support is and they start running to make the train, which they do.  If they hadn’t the rest of the somewhat predictable plot would not be able to play out.

Long Branch

Once on the train, they make the few other people in the car uncomfortable and myself too a bit, to be honest.  Finally, after their make out session goes on for a while and a station name is announced, our female (who’s name we still do not know) asks where this guy lives to which he finally admits he lives in Long Branch – nearly 2 hours away.

Cue to them now being on a city bus in the snow – at this point, quite unrealistic.  Their down to awkward conversation when at least the girl lets us know why we don’t know character names “basic one night stand etiquette”.  That cleared a little bit up at least.  Finally, they make it back to his house where it is clear to the audience immediately that he lives with family.  She stays and they end up cozy-ing up to sleep, no sex involved, and leave the viewer thinking they may actually go on a real date. Not original, but cute and relatively enjoyable.

     So when it comes to breakfast I understand that it is the most important meal of the day but it is also the most confusing.  I find myself constantly trying to figure out what I should eat.  I can’t remember the last time I had cereal and for me oatmeal seems so old school that when I do have it I feel like I’m 10 years old again, and that’s not a cool feeling.

     On those confusing mornings when I can’t think of anything to eat, I stop thinking and just go with old faithful, the omelette.  Now in my mind, an omelette can have anything you want in it, as long as it fills you up. I like to put spinach in mine because it makes me feel like I’m being healthy and I’m sure my mother would love to know I’m eating vegetables(no I don’t like with my mother, just saying she would find it very adult that I’m getting my greens).

     An omelet is very simple to make, just crack a couple of eggs, stir it in a bowl, heat a pan and throw it in there.  The key is to make sure that your pan has grease or butter in it so that the egg doesn’t stick to it. Now when deciding what to put in an omelet I say go fro what you crave. Now I usually just put mushrooms, onions and cheese and some spinach or kale in it in my omelette.  One day I felt adventurous and made an omelet with brussel sprouts. Yup! you heard right, I put brussel sprouts in my omelet and I must say that it was sooooo good.  Now please don’t just throw a few whole brussel sprouts in there, you have to  mash them up and just put them right in the center of your omelette.  I also add pepperjack cheese for a little kick.

     Well, there you have it.  You are now in receipt of my top secret breakfast before I head out to Baruch and since you now know one of my secrets you have two choices.  The first choice is you can share one of your secrets with me so we can make it fair or you can just hang out with me on this page for a while because I won’t allow you to leave with a secret of mine, the choice is yours…

This looks sooooo good

Sean Creamer is with us in spirit, no he isn’t dead, just didn’t show up the day we took the pic

Gari- Well in the beginning I seemed a lot more spontaneous and didn’t think before did a lot of things. I was very random but now I seem to be more cautious, maybe its because I’m now in a relationship whereas when this class first started I was single like a dollar bill and not looking for change. I seem to be more focused now and when it came to blogging I found myself being intrigued by the whole process because I’ve never blogged before, only read other peoples blogs. I was able to appreciate the art form of blogging for the stressful, beautiful and educational platform it could be. I also developed a profound respect for those that have a blog because I see how demanding it can be to continuously produce fresh thoughts. This class has definitely introduced me to a world I knew nothing about and now that I am aware of it I see I’m going to stay in this world for a while.

Emmy-So here we are, at the end. It’s been a journey, a good one. I am still loving the city but more importantly I have written more, procrastinated less and learned how to put together a better, more well rounded, deeper researched and more professional looking blog. I will miss my group and the rest of you guys. See you round campus. Drops keyboard, exits stage right.

Malynda- “Much has changed since we began.” As a city we became closer, and as a class we learned to continue pursuing our goals even in the wake of disaster. As a writer, I enjoyed learning to write my own ideas, instead of news stories. I learned not only how to create a blog, but also how to market and write using my own voice and perspective.