There are lots of coffee shops in our neighborhood. Starbucks was just the closest one to our old apartment building. I also found it a great place to study. Anymore, I go elsewhere, because we live closer to a couple of other shops now. So I haven’t been back to the old Starbucks for maybe [...]
That I am in Starbucks is not surprising, though it would have been had you told me this five years ago. What is surprising is that I just got a free cup of coffee.I ordered a grande coffee and they were making a new pot*. I waited, and then got the coffee for free for [...]
Halloween is over, and today I heard my first Christmas song. Christmas! In piped-XM Radio at Starbucks, but still Christmas music. It was Joni Mitchell, The River. Now, arguably this is not a Christmas song. Yet, it is the first time this calendar year that I have heard the word “Christmas” put to music. As [...]
Ok, so this isn’t really that sociological, even by this blog’s standards. I’d probably have to look at time-use surveys on DST weekends, analyzing them across categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality. That seems like a longshot, so I’ll stick with my one observation of the weekend. Every Hour is a Totally Free, Unaccounted [...]
Prologue. We’ve got a really old CD player. The kind that doesn’t play burned cd’s from Musicmatch jukebox. And since we are planning a long road trip on Tuesday, I’m burning some music. Only I can’t get the disks to play in said old player. I walked out to the car to get the diskman [...]
