when you robbed peter
                      to pay paul,
did you ever stop to think
                  how mary must have felt?

 the past week and a half have been a flurry of travel: stints in PA and cleveland now to be followed by new year's eve with some friends out in the woods of eastern OH and a departure for san francisco come thursday evening ( Read more... )

i just ordered a trainer
which means next week
i should be able to ride
in place in our place.
now i just need to paint
mountain murals
on the basement walls
and hallucinate motion
lest stillness stop me.

thus ends fall
6 more 4th essays to grade
30 bibliographies tomorrow
15 essays thursday
exams next week
i have lots of prep work
to do for my spring seminar
i have some editing that must be done
i have a job to apply for
and could have another
if i wished to return to allegheny
for a two-year stint
fall ends thus

don't
you think
if i think
you don't
if i don't
think
you think,
don't you?

i don't have the energy or time to do justice ( Read more... )

tis the 9th week ( Read more... )

last sunday's race was lots of fun, though it entailed more sitting around and waiting than actual racing. i was the 19th to start out of 78 riders overall, so i actually was back down the mountain before other riders had started up. anyway, i had a few personal goals: finish in 25 minutes; finish in the top third; catch at least one rider in front ( Read more... )

i was up at 7:15 this morning and headed out for a ride at 8:30, up into the mist-shrouded hills around town. there's something wonderfully quiet and meditative about riding in the fog, about seeing only 1/4 to a 1/2 mile ahead, about the moisture in the chilled air beading on your arms. i decided to do the july race route at a relatively relaxed ( Read more... )

ah, grading,
you brighten
my world.