I kinda did a big girl thing the other day. I walked into a little corner store. Picked out a coffee roast I liked. Ground the beans. And walked out with a nice, delicously smelling bag of grounds (yes i will use delicous to describe a scent). I had never done that before. Not in a Safeway. Not in a Starbucks. I think it's because I've never actually owned my own coffee maker. Or french press. I still don't and that's something I'm working on. Not sure why it's taken me this long. I mean there's nothing like waking up in the morning, lying in bed, and sipping a cup of coffee. This is kind of one of those things that when I was a kid and my mom, as she was making my lunch, would ask me to microwave her cup of coffee for 30sec. I never understood the big deal with coffee, and I still don't. It's like beer. The fact that because (well in the US at least) we are 21 you all of a sudden belong to this whole other group of people. Even though its such a small ridiculous thing, there is immediatly that unsaid knowing that you both now can drink. So what do we do? We hoard the bars at night, dropping money on liquids. We just sit, and drink. I mean, think how ridiculous that is. People are going to do things that are social. Like a game, or a meal, and drinking is just another one of those things. But wow. I kinda feel coffee is like that, like its a right of passage thing. Like the moment you decide you like red wine more than white. It's this thing coffee becomes. For me it's more of the feeling drinking a cup gives me. I think it's like that for a lot of people. Not that coffee even effects them anymore, but that they mentally can't move if they don't have their morning cup.
note: Im watching the all star game right now. The last one to be played in Yankee Stadium. Its top of the 13th.
Not sure why I decided to mention my coffee adventure. Im excited to drink it. Kona blend (which kinda has a special place in my heart because that's where my friend KtO is from, hi Katy. i miss her). The lady at the store said it was her fav.
Here's an article about David Sedaris. He's awesome. more mature?