I think it's pretty well known I like coffee. I mean, it's in my introduction and all, but the people I tend to hang around know I like my java. It's just sorta my thing.
It's better than binge-drinking, right?
Anyhow, coffee. Trip brought it to my attention that today is National Coffee Day. While fixing up my morning brew, it got me to thinking about the connotations that coffee has and what it has come to mean to me.
There's obviously the side effects, like the fact that I've become relient on it in the mornings. I blame this on my parents, and that is actually a legit excuse this time. I have been drinking it since I was three, though for the first chunk of my life that meant it was milk, sugar, and a drop of coffee. I loved the taste of it. As I got older, I gradually drank it as mostly-coffee, though I still consume it with ridiculous amounts of cream and sugar. (McDonalds medium? Five creams, four sugars.) Jiaqi will never drink my coffee (if I offer it) because it's too sweet.
Coffee, to me, has always been a drink, a beverage of choice. It was never my "oh God I need energy" device until I hit college, and even then it was only that when I needed to pull late nights. I drank it a lot as a freshman because I had a larger meal plan than needed, so when I cut down the plan my sophomore year, I rarely drank coffee outside of breakfast.
Living in my own place has also seen a weird habit birthed: decaf coffee. I was never a fan of decaf because it has this weird taste, though I sometimes drank it if we went out to eat really late at night (like midnight). To solve this problem, we bought Mexican decaf coffee, because that stuff tastes basically like espresso. Awwwesome.
Coffee is whatever I want it to be. It gets me energized or mellows me out. It gets me thinking and creative but also get focused. And it's one of the best sources of inspiration for projects, bro.
So here's to you, coffee.
