note to self: Starbucks

Note to self:

When sitting in Starbucks early on a Saturday morning to write a 6 page complicated final exam that requires extensive page flipping, disorganization, and sanity-inducing coffee sipping, DO NOT choose the table right next to the sugar/milk/napkin counter.

I've been sitting here trying desperately to concentrate on the 2nd of 3 major exams/papers due on Monday and people keep interrupting, passing by, spilling things, and such.

My advice: get a table in the back in the corner where nobody goes. Too bad the weekend is like busy New Yorker heaven at Starbucks and there were no other tables.

Random. Sorry. Haha.

celebrate! gingerbread lattes are back

Today is like a holiday for me - it was the first day of the year that Starbucks began selling their limited-time-only seasonal Ginerbread Lattes for the holidays!

For 2 months of the year this phenominal caffeinated beverage becomes my drink of choice, and it is truly a tragic day come January when I ask the bored barista for one and they are out of gingerbread syrup. Tear!

But they are back! And I had one this morning, which for me marks the beginning of winter (it's freezing today!) and the beginning of the holiday season. I have a mental association with the warmth of coffee and the insanity of Nutcracker that is so comforting.

Yes, it's the little things in life...