Lindsay Anderson
Poem #4

Breakfast at Perkins

I’m eating at Perkins, what should I get?
My good pal Peter says get an omelette.
The server asks me what I want to drink.
“Ill have some coffee with cream,” and I’m set.

It’s really a simple choice don’t you think?..
When choosing sausage by patty or link.
Choosing a side of three pancakes or toast,
Too many decisions it makes me blink

Twice. Take a muffin to eat at the Post
Office. ‘They’re mammothed sized,’ Perkins can boast.
“Don’t stress too much your order will be fine.
Why not ask the host what people eat most!”

Build your own omelette for $7.99
It’s what I order here every damn time.
The mushroom and swiss, it tastes so divine
I won’t share with you, this baby’s all mine.

I’ve always secretly thought I would end up with complete amnesia some day, and forget everyone I know. It’s not much of a secret though, because I probably advertise more than is healthy the fact that I don’t remember any of my childhood, and in fact, do not remember any of my life before a year or two ago (and that number moves with me, so I won’t remember today two years from now, etc.). I’ve decided to essentially combat that problem by using my good friend, technology.

When I have downtime at home, and I’m just loafing around reading blogs or somesuch, I’ve taken to tagging friends’ names into photos of them in my Aperture library. This is comparatively easy with people I only recently met, or for those I’ve only met once (and taken pictures of them at that time) because their pictures are all in one place. But for people I’ve known for the past 3-4 years, esp. close friends, that means they’ve got pictures scattered all over the 62,000 shots I keep in there currently. It ends up being less boring than I thought it would be, because seeing all these times with friends ends up being pretty enjoyable, even if we all tend to look somewhat bored in the pictures. Refreshing all this regularly might help me remember stuff better, but even if not, I can at least check the metadata on a shot to see who my friends are.

As an aside, check out this guy Eric’s blog. He’s genius with sounds.