perfect cup of sumatra

there is a new $12,000 coffee apparatus at starbucks. it is intelligent. it thinks, weighs, measures, pushes and pulls out water. it, along with my friendly and knowledgeable barista, produced a “perfect” cup of 2/3 caf and 1/3 decaf sumatra. at almost $3 for a short cup, it inspires guilt. i am a good person. i really am.

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still life with coffee

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a rainy sick day list: originally hand-crafted 2.23.10 @ 8:08pm

1. wake up at 3 am feeling quite ill
2. wake up again at 8 feeling illish
3. coffee
4. boiled egg
5. mochi
6. call in sick
7. coffee
8. make list
9. unload dishwasher
10. put clean dishes away
11. load dirty dishes into dishwasher
12. renew rx
13. arrange delivery of same
14. snack, details of which unimportant
15. make necessary phone call
16. connect with old friend on west coast
17. discuss aromatherapy-related concepts and plans with same
18. adjust fb settings to reflect current reality of friend configurations in present as well as in past
19. clean litter box with bon ami, lavender all-purpose cleaning gel
20. perform neti with home-made essential oil infused sea salt and ghee
21. create rosewater from dried rosebuds gotten at co op
22. re-fold and put away laundry as necessary
23. view premier and second episodes of jersey shore
24. explain to fb person “y” i am doing #23 above
25. receive fone call from beloved requesting (confirming, in her mind) dinner preparation
26. select musical accompaniment for prepping
27. prepare dinner

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today’s menu

1. coffee
2. small piece of mochi
3. follow-up cup
4. peanut butter and jelly sandwich
5. huge apple
6. granola-sunflower seed-raising mixture
7. small piece of cheddar cheese
8. small slice of cucumber
9. intermittent, inadequate hydration
10. sunflower seeds

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regret

i regret that i did not have time to make a bodum of coffee today at work. i will not make the same mistake tomorrow.

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3x

today i drank 3 bodums of coffee.  half decaf, half regular. the last bodumful was freshly ground and so good that i am considering notching up my daily coffee requirements to include freshly ground.

my heart is pounding and i am wishing i could keep going. do i dare?

rationalization: it’s really like drinking 1.5 cups of regular coffee and 1.5 cups decaf.  not so much.

often when i drink multiple bodums of coffee, the second is inferior and i think, i didn’t really need this. but this time, the enjoyment is escalating. i am truly tempted to form another bodum and stir up the muddy goodness with a chopstick and wait for it to ripen.

some spontaneous coffee poetry:

you are the coffee flower of my heart
you, glass thing of wonder
i stir you gently and wait and wait and ask my partner susan, do you think the coffee is ready? what is the temperature going to be today?
now all that remains is the late afternoon sun, steelish sky and cup with a layer of sadness on the bottom
sad because i want it and, at the same time, know it is full of grounds. which i don’t want.

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coffee & bacon celebration

this is both a list and a declaration about coffee. today’s coffee has been quite excellent. two cups so far. because my cat is elderly, he is much less likely to jump on the couch without advanced warning, so i am now able to with confidence place a cup and saucer next to me on the couch. this adds to my enjoyment.

coffee and bacon are a very good combination. the bacon should be crispy and lack nitrates or other foul contaminants. which was the case today.

here is a list for today
1. i am happy
2. i am still vibrating from my excellent dance class yesterday
3. i am enjoying my coffee tremendously
4. it is a nice temperature: not too hot, not too cold. there should be more days like this.
5. my beloved made the applewood-smoked bacon in the oven and it came out nicely.
6. i have listened to _captain fantastic & the brown dirt cowboy_
7. i have written two thank-you cards
8. i am optimistic about the future
9. i am optimistic about the present
10. i am realizing that eating too much is really not what it’s cracked up to be
11. i am seeking an additional dance class for my week so that i am dancing more
12. my heart is genuinely happy today and also there is room in there for whatever sadness seems to be lingering
13. i am not finding it necessary to link residual sadness to a thought or story. hallelujah!

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coffee conflict

i’ve already had two bodumfuls of glorious halfcaf. for the second cup, i made scalded milk and whipped it up into a froth with my beautiful aerolatte wand, then proceeded to ignore it and drink cup number two black. i ignored the milk despite my efforts to present it in a gray russel wright creamer. so now the question is…do i make even more coffee?

i think the answer is obvious. soon it will be sundown. there will be no coffee drinking tomorrow morning, as it is the day of atonement, or reframed for my current purposes, the day of no coffee. in preparation, i should drink and enjoy as much as i like.

the only remaining obstacle is that i am on the couch and nobody else is home at the moment.

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forgetfulness

in the morning when i am drinking my first cup of coffee, i start thinking about my second cup of coffee. i think, when i get to work i am going to make another cup of coffee. then i get to work and i don’t because i am busy. i wind up drinking water, if i am lucky, or some coconut water. the day goes by and by, and i think, i really did want some coffee. but now i’m too lazy, or it’s too late in the day. too late in the day for decaf? too late in the day. for decaf.

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2nd cup

the second cup is very good, but it is not as good as the first cup.

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