April 16, 2008
If you haven’t heard, Starbucks has made some major changes lately: they’ve redesigned their logo, came up with a new roast of coffee, and even changed their CEO! We’re not sure if it’s for the better or worse, but hey, change equals publicity!
Have you tried the new Pike Place Roast yet? The idea behind it is going back to their old roots with a fresh approach to brewing coffee. Inspired by Pike Place Market, located in Seattle (which we might as well call the city where coffee was born), the new roast is brewed fresh every 30 minutes in every Starbucks store across the world (and you know that’s a lot of Starbucks).
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October 2, 2007
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Today I had my first sip of coffee in about 4 months.
Believe it or not, I have endured all that I know of the real working world without coffee, until today. And now, I don’t know why but I feel like I’ve failed some sort of sober mission, as if I swore off coffee at the end of May, when in actuality this coffee drought was just a fluke and result of circumstance.
Once I noticed my lack of coffee consumption, I decided to observe how I felt each day while not drinking coffee. Provided the experiment has no accuracy whatsoever (as the variable was nowhere near isolated), I found that coffee has no bearing on how I ultimately feel, rather it’s the adjustment to and from drinking coffee regularly that seems have a noticeable effect.
The reason I gave in today was a result of both an exhausted start to my day and the recent cravings I’ve had. I’ve been yearning for some freshly brewed coffee, and really needed a morning pick-me-up so I just dove right in and poured myself a half a cup. To my dismay, I was completely unsatisfied (was this coffee sitting out from days before?) and I wound up with a headache.
Maybe it’s a Vanilla Latte I’m craving, or a Cappuccino on Ice but yea, this stuff didn’t really cut it. So now I felt like a bigger failure for ruining my 4 month streak with a mediocre sip of coffee. I was almost proud of myself that I was running without coffee, when so many American office employees need it to get through their day.
So readers, look a little bit closer at your coffee cup. I have a question for you (and I mean really look closely):
If your screen is too dark, or my attempt to be cool WITHOUT using Photoshop isn’t working, my question was “What does Coffee do to you?” I know, that just ruined it. Oh well.
-Hillary, wondering if the lack of coffee is the reason she has been sick for 4 months (I know, that’d just be silly…)
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