sigelphoenix

1. My coffee maker arrived on Friday, and I've been wanting to try it out. shadawyn and I have a date to go to Pike Place Market on Saturday, where I will raid Market Spice (an awesome tea/coffee/spice shop). So I couldn't really justify buying anything before that, just for the sake of my own impatience.

However! Today at work, a salesman came by, and, in thanks for my help (which was really quite minimal), gave me a $5 Starbucks gift card. So, I thought, why not? And off I went after work, to buy a bag of coffee beans.

... Except, through cashier error and my own obliviousness, the gift card was not counted toward my purchase, so I ended up paying the full price. :P Ah well. I did get a free drink out of it, because apparently that's what Starbucks does when you buy coffee beans. And, uh, I still have a gift card. XD;;

2. I have been giggling like a giddy child over my new BPAL imps since I picked them up on Saturday. :D And I also made a new order with shadawyn (a.k.a. my enabler). XD

3. ratzeo ran an awesome adventure on Sunday ... which was part one of two, so now I reeeeaaally want to play the other half.

4. kyonkun gave me a link to a Japanese image gallery of hairstyles (so I can see what Asian hair looks like), and I think I've decided what I want for my new haircut: something like these. (Okay, really and truly I would want one of these, but those would definitely take more effort than I'd want to put in.)

5. As I mentioned earlier, on Friday, we had a brief planning meeting for the NWSA conference. It really helped me focus and get back on task, after having floundered about for the past several weeks. I hunted down books to buff up my theoretical knowledge - I'm currently reading this and have ordered this and this.

Which brings me to my goals for the week ... which are basically to finish The Macho Paradox and set a pace to finish all three books by the time we have our next major meeting in mid-May. This goal takes priority over (though hopefully will not exclude) all other ongoing goals.

Can I do it? Honestly, I know there's the risk that I will fall behind here. The daily amount of reading I will need to do will be somewhat like my reading load in college - but now I don't have deadlines and grades acting as enforcers of my discipline. Learning to keep myself on track will be hard. On the other hand, this is a skill I need to learn anyway, now that I'm out of school.

So, I tried out my coffee maker tonight. I'm not enough of a coffee expert to know if all the rave reviews are accurate, but the coffee was pretty good. You start by pressing a super-strong amount of coffee, and then top it off with water. I think I put in too much water, because when I sampled the essence-o'-coffee it was good, but the final cup was weak-tasting.

Anyway. I had the coffee after 9:00 p.m., which I realize is somewhat close to my bedtime. However, I also know that a cup of coffee doesn't have a huge effect on my system (unlike espresso, a fact of which I have very recently reminded myself, and with which I provided ratzeo much amusement). I figured that one cup would be okay.

Except -

I knew, at the time, that this particular coffee maker uses quite a bit of coffee - about twice the grounds other coffee makers use, in fact. For some reason, I didn't make the connection that this would result in me getting about two cups' worth of caffeine.

... Whoops.

*vibrates*