Major life transitions
It's subtle. You never really notice a change; grabbing a coffee after lectures or a cappuccino on the way back from church. But your perceptions are gradually being altered, your expectations incrementally raised, until one day you realise it. You've become a coffee snob.
No longer are you content with the 70p brown stuff the machine churns out. Not for you the Nescafe granules. Now you're spending way too much on best Columbian export from coffee bars. And, where before you were content to break out the cafitiere ever now and again, now it has taken up permanent residence on your desk. And you've bought an air-tight jar to keep the coffee in and have taken to warming the milk. Ok, so to begin with arriving somewhere supping from a cardboard cup of the Good Stuff made you feel like you had just walked in off the set of the West Wing; and walking in the park (ask me about the swan sometime) warming yourself around a Latte from Caesar's made you feel that bit trendy - "Hey, I'm so busy and interesting, that in the brief time I have spare I need to BUY coffee. Can't just pop home and stick the kettle on in between busy life events."
And this is all great, until you realise that you haven't slept properly in about 5 months and you're starting to get headaches and your overdraught limit doesn't seem quite so generously high as it once did. On top of this, you are beginning to hate coffee as your body pleads with you for some relief from all the caffeine. A de-tox lurks ominously round the corner.
What's a guy to do?
No longer are you content with the 70p brown stuff the machine churns out. Not for you the Nescafe granules. Now you're spending way too much on best Columbian export from coffee bars. And, where before you were content to break out the cafitiere ever now and again, now it has taken up permanent residence on your desk. And you've bought an air-tight jar to keep the coffee in and have taken to warming the milk. Ok, so to begin with arriving somewhere supping from a cardboard cup of the Good Stuff made you feel like you had just walked in off the set of the West Wing; and walking in the park (ask me about the swan sometime) warming yourself around a Latte from Caesar's made you feel that bit trendy - "Hey, I'm so busy and interesting, that in the brief time I have spare I need to BUY coffee. Can't just pop home and stick the kettle on in between busy life events."
And this is all great, until you realise that you haven't slept properly in about 5 months and you're starting to get headaches and your overdraught limit doesn't seem quite so generously high as it once did. On top of this, you are beginning to hate coffee as your body pleads with you for some relief from all the caffeine. A de-tox lurks ominously round the corner.
What's a guy to do?
posted by Michael at 8:28 pm
3 Comments:
hmmm... take up tea instead? I don't know many tea snobs, and those that are tend to drink green tea or some such beverage, which is officially Good For You (TM).
You can't be a coffee snob and work in the NHS, the stuff you get here is abysmal! :o)
I think it's a mature student thing. At least that's when I went through it. It's prob. to distinguish yourself from the 18 year old med students who aer instead carrying around a bottle of WKD.
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