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Archive for the ‘Starbucks’ Category

When did they start gluing the sleeves to Starbucks cups?

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 [...]

The most surprising thing that happened all year

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 [...]

It’s coming on Christmas

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 [...]

Sociology of Daylight Savings Time

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 [...]

everyday sexism

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 [...]

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