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[angledge]

gutbloom has a meme for us: "Write a post about coffee."

Why not.

I like coffee but drink it only occasionally. Mostly I drink Constant Comment tea, with honey. I drink most of my coffee at church, in the social hall following Sunday services. My church makes remarkably good coffee, using an old-fashioned percolator. I drink my coffee with loads of sugar & half-and-half. I'm weak, I guess.

In college, I drank lots of caffeine, including lots of coffee. There was a snack bar in the Ag Quad called the Alfalfa Room, & coffee was 25 cents a cup. I drank about a cup an hour when I was studying or working at Mann Library. There was a coffee vending machine at Riley-Robb Hall, but I was never convinced that the liquid that came out of that machine was actually coffee. The vending machine was of the type that offered coffee, hot chocolate, & I think chicken noodle soup, all of which were dispensed from the same tube. Dubious.

Occasionally at work I will drink coffee. Since I usually drink work coffee out of a desperate need for caffeine, when I drink it, I make it strong. My co-worker Dave & I have mastered a recipe for our coffee machine that we call Rocket Fuel. You set the coffee machine (which is one of the machines that makes one cup of coffee at a time) to STRONG/CAFFEINATED. The resulting brew is then combined with a package of instant hot chocolate. All the sugar & caffeine a girl could want.

Now, for the most important coffee-related blathering - why am I writing this instead of doing the mountains of work I have on my desk?

Comments

[kwokj.livejournal.com]

heehee... I never even thought about the chicken soup, coffee and hot chocolate all coming out of the same tube. but I've rarely seen those machines since the 80s.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Dave Barry wrote a column that mentioned such a machine once. And yes, I think they are a thing of the past. Which is good.

[marasca.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I forget how big Cornell is. Then I see a post like this in which you mention several places you used to drink coffee on campus and I've never been to any of them. It probably comes as no surprise that I spent my hours of on-campus coffee drinking in Temple of Zeus and The Green Dragon.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Well, like the Temple of Zeus & the Green Dragon, the Alfalfa Room no longer exists. Sad! The coffee/hot chocolate/soup machine no longer exists either. Glad!

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was fast. They were all still there when I worked at Cornell. Though the Alfalfa Room was the only one with the same atmosphere it had when I was a student. The Green Dragon was a lot more Cornell Dining-esque and Temple of Zeus actually had some fantastic soup, salads, and sandwiches the last time I was there (which was about a year before I left).

[marasca.livejournal.com]

This map: http://www.cornell.edu/img/maps/large_search.pdf shows Alfalfa Room and Green Dragon as still being around. They moved Temple of Zeus while I was still a student but now I don't see it on the map. That would be so sad! The new Zeus lacked the atmosphere of the old one, but it was better than nothing. And they still made fantastic soups.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I understood that the Alfalfa Room closed when the ground floor of Mann Library was converted into a coffee bar/snack area. I can't remember who told me the Green Dragon had closed, but I wouldn't know for certain, since I've never been there. And I didn't know that the Temple of Zeus had been relocated - I just knew its former location was gone. Which sucks, because the T of Z was supercool.

[http://users.livejournal.com/-j0k3r-/]

Now what you need is to make sure that it brews using a decent coffee bean. Id reccomend Rocket Fuel coffee http://www.britstore.co.uk/itm00797.htm with added buzz from crushed pro-plus. Then top it off with at least 5 jam donuts. Say goodbye to sleep.

Reminds me of a Human geography conference presentation: Inter-discerplinary discourses on the nature of Java in our society, or "why cant johnny blink"

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Now what you need is ... Say goodbye to sleep.

Is this how you're writing your thesis? And HELLO to you, stranger. Good to see you 'round these parts.