Coffee Chat ;)

[LoveHatesYou]

There's always the internet, but then again, I guess if you work in a library, it's not a huge issue.

[sleepydumpling]

It's tempting, that's for sure. But it is so much nicer to just wander a book shop IRL, you know?

[LoveHatesYou]

Seriously though, I do need coffee right now! Somebody put the coffee on, cuse in the last two days I have been handed two paychecks that i have been tolda I cannot cash yet, and I have been working 16 hour days! And it makes me overuse the exclamtion point!

[kaytie]

My favorite coffee: Ghirardelli Chocolate Caramel, which I have to buy in bulk online because no one sells it around me anymore.

There's a coffee shop near me called Cafe Bassam that is run and owned by a French man. He plays old French music over the speakers and the coffee is delicious! Sadly, they're moving locations to a place well over twenty blocks away.

I especially like coffee when I am working or writing. I've been drinking too much lately, though...starting to get headaches.

[sleepydumpling]

I need to find a new daily coffee haunt. We moved building at work, and now I can't get to "Hunky Harry", my usual coffee guy before work. Great coffee and he was hot!

I tried the new cafe in our foyer, and while their coffee is good, they take FOREVER to make it, so that checks them off the list. The place across the street has fantastic coffee, but before work it's impossible to even get in the door, it's so packed.

I have heard there is another cafe going into the square our building is in, and that a Shingle Inn is opening up out there too. Shingle Inn are Brisbane's most famous cake shops. Don't know what their coffee is like though. I hope one of them does good coffee, quickly and conveniently. I'm putting up with Gloria Jeans at the moment which is decidedly average.

[ktmayo05]

Ok, it's bad enough that my damn coffee pot is still broken (I have yet to buy another) - let alone that the only place to fulfill this everlasting coffee dream every morning happens to be the ONLY place in between where I live and where I work.

The gas station.

Bleh.

[sleepydumpling]

Ewww, petrol station coffee is nasty!

[LoveHatesYou]

The best coffee I've ever had was in college iun Santa Barbara, at my coffee haunt- Java Jones- cute surfer hippie boys, lots of studuers, poetry readings, live music, a sunny patio, and the best delcious coffe serverd out of real mugs, which I think makes the coffee taste so much better than out of a paper cup. Unfortunately, college ended, and now I am back home and there is a starbucks, where the coffee is ok, on every corner but no atmosphere. I can't find a good one. It doesn't help that I can't drive to find a good place either.

[knightss]

Ok, it's bad enough that my damn coffee pot is still broken (I have yet to buy another) - let alone that the only place to fulfill this everlasting coffee dream every morning happens to be the ONLY place in between where I live and where I work.

The gas station.

Bleh.

oh god. my heart goes out to you.

[sleepydumpling]

The best coffee I ever had was at a wee hole in the wall cafe in a laneway in Melbourne. I went to Melbourne for a week's holiday in 2003, and not once did I experience a bad cup of coffee down there.

Often I would get up at 4am and set off very early for my day of checking out the city. Even at that early hour, the minute I set foot out of my hotel in the heart of the city, I was carried off by the scent of dozens of wonderful coffees in all the cafes and coffee stands in lanes, alleys and back streets all through the CBD.

On the morning of my trip to the Victoria Markets I stopped off in one of the laneways at about 5am to grab a wake-me-up cup of coffee, and was nearly transported to heaven. I swear, it was ambrosial! Melbourne sure knows how to do coffee - in fact that was where the coffee culture first hit Australia, traditionally a tea drinking nation.

[LoveHatesYou]

You make me want to go down under. I'll trade houses with you for a week. You can drink your coffee in my house in sunny California, and I'll take where ever you live Down Under. What do you think? We just need to figure out paid vacation time and plane tickets...

[knightss]

take the long way, stop at new york, and pick me up. it's too damn cold here. please! i'm begging.

[Linda]

yea when u get him get me. currently i am freezing and trying to read The Decameron and it just is not going so good. Even tho on CNN they just had a report on a guy getting attacked by a great white shark in australia im willing to risk swimming to shore.

it shouldn't be allowed to be this cold and not snow!
global warming is really being a winter buzzkill.

[LoveHatesYou]

You got it guys- next stop, New York. I'll hit you all up mid-flight. Be packed and ready.

*Siderbar- Emily got a new to her used computer and now has interneet at home. Next on Emily's list of things to get- capal tunnel. Yes!

***Sidebar number 2- Border's has really good coffee. Just learned that today. Also, went to the library at my mall (yes the mall in California has a library. Very strange and wonderful. ) And stopped by Border's and got coffee at Border's. It was wonderful.. But I bought my books at the store in the library, because they are used and much cheaper.

[sleepydumpling]

Well actually... I'm planning almost 3 months touring the US from Oct-Jan 08!

Can't offer you my place (already have someone house-sitting) but who'll buy me a cup of coffee when I hit their neck of the woods?

And if you're coming to Brisbane (where I am), don't come in our summer. It's disgusting - I'm sweltering in over 80% humidity right now!