Starbucks is truly hard to hate: they provide health insurance coverage to part-time employees and other things that endear them to bleeding-heart-liberals such as myself. However, I live in Seattle. SEATTLE! I love it here! There is coffee everywhere! Generally wonderful and non-blended and with made-there-in-their-bakery treats!
Love your story.
i am having trouble appreciating said starbucks. i'm a little sad that my first poetry reading is going to take place there...maybe i'll bring in my beehive mug full of fair-trade beehive coffee. hmmm....plotting...
In news from over the seas, Starbucks' invasion of the Inner West of Sydney (Australia) proceeds afoot. In that fabled paradise wherein the dreaded enemy of Good Food, McDonalds, was once defeated on two fronts - forced to close one of its evil outlets and prevented from opening another - they slowly creep forward and establish footholds. But the great bastion of law and moral order in that place, the University which hight Sydney, remains intact and free from this foreign pestilence to this present time of writing.
I just love you.
Sigh, I know that you are way too young to have been teaching when I went to college the first time but gosh it would have been a swell experience. Instead, I had a jaundiced professor who refused to look students in the eye and who was almost successful in turning me off to my first love. Fortunately, I caught on to the fact that he was a drunken idiot before the damage was done.
Drink on.
forsooth!
I haven't laughed so loud at a blog entry before. Love it!
Karen
How do you know to compose a blog entry that I will absolutely need to have read before I settle down to work? You make the day brighter, Lady Anne.
Holy Starbucks! that was good blogtainment! Lady Arkbuilder, as well, does sorely miss the most righteous potato chips this side of the Mason-Dixon.
Bring on the tales of the noble teaching assistants.
This entry is a winner, methinks, and will be celebrated in story and in song.
Love the story but Starbucks coffee always tastes ever so slightly fishy to me.
Thanks for the much needed entertainment. In response to those who may have thought I'm AGAINST Starbucks, I'm not. Really. I work there. They help cover the health insurance. I'm against THAT Starbucks. It's actually a licensed store, so the employees there don't GET benefits. It's a clever, little corporate loophole.
And, you know, I miss the deli chips.
But, thanks Anne, for putting so many little things in perspective once again.
Most entertaining, Lady Anne.
I am guessing that I would barely recognize the land of Duquesne these days. I loved the tuna salad in the commuter cafe.
What Rachael said.
I am cheered every time I see an update here, for I know it shall improve my day.
Oh rejoice, a most Comely, Eloquent and Timely entry, which I will have to forward to my Revered and Loved Mother, a former (when she was stronger in body, if not mind)English teacher (alas, not Medieval)so she too may Laugh Aloud and Rejoice.
I'm from Seattle, too, and Ok with Starbucks, but there is such an abundance of coffee purveyors one Has Many Choices.
Hee. I loved it. I hear tell that the excellent chips can be found in the place-that-replaced-Burger-King in Rockwell Hall, but I don't know if that is a far journey for the English Department to make.
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