I'm Still Here
No new CSL this week. Last night was a bit of a late night, and when I woke up this morning, I didn’t reeeally have the motivation to walk into town. So I made a sort-of mocha here, and drank it in my pyjamas, which is something you can’t say for coffee shops.
But I can at least get caught up with the CSL of last week. It can pretty much be summed up as: Good coffee, bad scone, not cozy. There, that was hard.
Afterward, I went to the Causeway Coastal Market that happens in the courtyard of St. Patrick’s on the second Saturday of every month. I found an artisan coffee roaster who grinds the beans on-site. It was a bit strange, this huge grinder under a flimsy tent. I got 250g of the “Komodo Dragon” roast specially ground for use in a French press. I don’t know whether it’s due to not having snobby-quality coffee regularly since August, or whether this is just that amazing, but dang. I’m having trouble limiting myself to one-a-day on this stuff. This could quickly become an addiction…
In other news, I’ve started baking again. I had to invest in a food scale, and I’ve been relying on UK recipes with weighed measurements, since I still haven’t even seen measuring cups for sale here. I always thought it would be a bigger pain to have to weigh all the stuff, but it’s actually a lot easier… Maybe they do know what they’re doing. It’s also a lot neater. I don’t have to clean up flour at all.
Also, it’s really fun to make peanut butter cookies for people who have never had peanut butter before.
It’s not fun having professors who say they’ll email you documents and then finally send them to you a week later, the night before a class, and are upset that no one has them the next morning. So there’s a cultural commonality.
Look at my pretty campus:
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