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"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. ... I felt
very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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"On the surface, it sounds irresponsible, but to flourish in a rapidly changing world, you actually need to make more mistakes. Fail quickly. Fail often. If you do something and it
doesn't work, just recover in a hurry and try something else. ... Help develop a culture that is willing to fail its way to the future."
-- Price Pritchett, Culture Shift |
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"There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction -- every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles an hour."
-- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar |
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| My new home away from home? |
| Saturday, December 19, 2009 |
I have my amazing girlfriend to thank for getting me hooked on Starbucks. That's where I'm sitting at the moment, if you were wondering. Now mind you, I still don't drink coffee, and only certain cappuccinos will do, but Starbucks has a Caramel Apple "Spice" that they only serve during the winter months that almost can't be beaten.
I did say almost.
My history with the Caramel Apple "Spice," in quotation marks, goes back to 2005 when I was dating Misery. Back then, the beverage in question was named Caramel Apple Cider, and it was like Christmas in a cup. It was the one thing Misery gave me that amounted to a positive, rather than a paralyzing negative. And now... well apparently, even these things can change.
I realized last week sometime that they would certainly be serving the Caramel Apple Ciders again, and what with all the fuss about my amazing girlfriend getting regular freebies at her Starbucks of choice, I thought it couldn't hurt to stop by my local location and enjoy a warm beverage again -- free, this time, of any lingering memories of the Ghosts of Toxic Girlfriends Past.
I got away with this once or twice.
About the third time this season, I actually paid attention when the barista in question was formulating the thing. And what did I see? A jug of Tree Top apple juice pulled out of the fridge and poured into the mix.
Really? Brand name apple juice I could buy at the grocery store for $1.49 and mix up at home myself for not much more? When the hell did that begin? And that's when the answer occurred to me: it happened at about the same time they became known as the Caramel Apple "Spice." Cheap it up by replacing cider with apple juice, leave the price the same, and change the name slightly... what a racket.
I was one of the few in my circle who was unaware of this change, apparently, no doubt because I'm the least of all Starbucks aficionados within earshot. And it hasn't stopped the string of Caramel Apple "Spice" purchases I've been guilty of the last week or so... just don't think of me as an idiot, that's all I'm saying. :) |
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