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Someone More Addicted to Coffee Than Me

I just finished making a pot of coffee and reading The New York Times online. My upstairs neighbor knocked on my door. I opened it and there she stood with an empty coffee cup. She said, "I'm so sorry to bother you. Really. But my coffee maker isn't working and I got a cup of coffee from around the corner and it was disgusting and you always make really good coffee. We can smell it upstairs. And I was just wondering if I could have a cup ... I know this is strange but ..."

I let her in even though my place was a mess. I was out of coffee so I made her a new pot. I told her it was just Maxwell House coffee, vanilla flavor. She said that I did something special to it but I don't. She didn't believe me.

Coffee Good For You?

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More Travel Thoughts

I am on my way to Chicago for the premiere of Deadline. I am bit nervous about the film's reception but am excited to have the film have a fancy premiere in it's true home state.

Anyway, I am running late but as always make time for my cup of coffee. Now, if you make coffee to be drunk on airplanes, why is that coffee always the hottest coffee you've ever drank in your life. I'm not quite sure. I did land safely and was not burnt to death though I rode on a plane so small I couldn't fully stand up on it.

What's The Big Deal About Caffeine?

I saw Coffee and Cigarettes last night. The final and ironic blow in the ongoing caffeine debate that is occurring amongst my friends and within myself. I guess it’s not a debate when I know it’s bad for me. Still, the debate DOES exist whether or not the bad effects of caffeine is a calculated risk that I am willing to take.

Lately, I’ve been a bit tired. Just having a hard time feeling really awake. Usually I wake up at about 7. Write on my blog. Take a walk. Have some cereal. Now I’m just waking up and going to work and am barely writing on my blog the way I used to.

There are many possible causes: not enough exercise, not enough sleep, not enough iron (my usual issue). Still, when I was talking to a nutritionist friend about it, she suggested something truly horrifying: “Maybe you should cut out coffee. I think it’s making you psychotic and worse, tired. “ I don’t smoke. Drink a little. And despite my Rubenesque figure am actually a healthy eater. So how bad is the coffee thing for me really.

The flick added to the ongoing debate. I don’t think all of the shorts are great but the ones that are are fantastic. Cate Blanchett was my friend, Seke’s fav but mine was the Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan (my new favorite actor after my recent viewing of 24 Hour Party People) vignette that was hilarious. I think I was drawn to the vignettes that didn’t directly talk about caffeine. Maybe it’s just me though.

P.S. I wrote this lovely entry over a nice hot cup of coffee. Large.
P.P.S. When spell checking this entry, the only word I spelled incorrectly was caffeine. Hmm ...

Naked on 14th Street

I started this post as a rant about my inability to get coffee but I felt like I was just babbling about that because I was too chicken to talk about what is really on my mind.

It was kind of weird for me to put my blog out into the universe. It was one thing when it was this thing that I was doing that only David and Adriana knew about but putting it out in the universe to my friends was kind of a strange thing. Honestly, I never saw my blog as this super personal thing. It was just me talking about the good and bad in my life. I guess it was all part of a larger journey I am on to be more truthful with myself and others.

I was really surprised by the variety of responses I have gotten. Some people just think that it is a weird thing. Maybe because they would never do anything like it which is cool. I can deal with that. Plenty of strangers have written to me and that has been kind of interesting. I really have been taking advantage of the anonymity of the web and have made plenty of friends over the web who are dealing with the large variety of issues that I deal with everyday.

A Morning With Better Coffee

So I think that paying more money for a better cup of coffee is worth it. I have tried to be thrifty. Pick up the 50 cents cup of coffee at the dirty bodega but all it does is make me jittery. And being hit on by the father of three in front of his three year old son does begin to lose its charm. I have to say that WNYC having a fund drive is great for them but sucks for all of us who just want to hear some NPR without twenty thousand interruptions. So, what is up with Bush adding an amendment saying marriage should only be between a man and a woman? God, I am leaving the country.