On the elevator: Eminent Domain
It isn’t that I don’t like people, it’s just that people are weird, and confusing and awful. Ok, so maybe I don’t like people.
Tagged: coffee
Getting over the Hump Day morning slump
I treasure my telework days, not just for being away from the office, but also getting to enjoy the best parts of the morning without feeling cooped up inside a windowless office building. I often wonder if having two telework days a week would spoil me…
Friday the 13th, so far…
Y’know what? I’m not superstitious, but this Friday the 13th has been making it really difficult to get into TGIF mode. Here’s hoping that writing about it will help bring an early end to the Murphy’s Law field surrounding me all day!
And they called it coffee love…
Truly is there any love better than coffee love? I saw this stock image in an article on my way to work and thought it was simply adorable! The Awkward Yeti expresses the love for coffee far better than I...
Double-Shot Macchiato at The Bean Counter
As Facebook’s On This Day is doing its best to make sure I don’t forget a rather painful and difficult breakup from three years ago1, I’m trying to focus on more pleasant, more recent experiences. Found myself in Georgetown with...
dreams: I’ll be on my suit and tie…
I had a very strange dream last night. I was maybe back in school, or maybe just a chaperone for a school band event, but my high school band director (as he looks today)1 was there and I kept running...
coffee: hurry up and wait
I know this is sort of a Generation X and New Coffee Generation blasphemy, but isn’t it a bit weird that we have an entire industry devoted–mostly–to selling brewed coffee? Not that I don’t partake as much as the next...
#firstürbproblems: Skim, not Skinny!
Making sure to specify a “vanilla nonfat latte” instead of a “vanilla skim latte” at Starbucks for fear of being served a Skinny Vanilla latte. Yes… that’s a thing. Really. Well it is for me, anyway. The other odd thing...
Fall is here . . . at Starbucks!
Confession time: I have never cared for Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latté. You may commence pelting me with scones at your leisure. I do, however, love the fervor with which its return is welcomed every year–this being the 7th–by Starbucks fans...