Dawn Coffee

[skyring]

0520 8 Apr 2005

I’ve slept in. Despite the ponderous clanging of mighty and historic bells determinedly ringing out the true and correct time of God, none of that Daylight Saving nonsense, thank’ee – and the equally loud contribution of another church, more in tune with the times a few seconds later – I’ve lain in bed until a time I normally regard as impossibly late.

My Australian room-mates slumber on, complete with sound effects. They and I are quite out of phase with each other with their late night pubbing and my early morning writing, but we somehow manage to interact on a clement level in the few moments when our schedules intersect.

I keep my disturbances to a minininimum, making sure in the evening that I have everything I need tucked into my backpack, so that when I rise before dawn I am not rummaging around amongst my increasingly jumbled luggage for vital power cords and the like. Then again, I suspect that they use the same tactic I do when they return late at night – clasping the bedclothes and rolling over back into the enfolding arms of sleep.

I work for a few hours, TV news beside me, a cup or two to keep me going. I haven’t actually made myself a mug of proper coffee yet. Yesterday I left the “plunger” bit behind in the room, and today when I have all the proper parts, I discover that the pack of coffee I’ve bought consists of whole beans. I consider grinding my teeth awhile to get the proper consistency, but no. I will try to exchange them later.

I fall back on instant.

Comments

[gorydetails.livejournal.com]

Try dipping the coffee beans in chocolate; chocolate-covered coffee beans are a popular (and pricey) snack around here, and can also serve as caffeine pills for that quick pick-me-up! [Of course then you have to pick coffee-bean bits out of your teeth, but life is full of trade-offs.]