OK GUYS, I HAVE A SERIOUS ADDICTION..

..TO COFFEE! It's true, I know just about every coffee shop in Houston seeing as my apartment isn't really equipped with an office type set up. And let's face it.. how would I get work done anyways. Sooo now that it is officially fall, I would like to share some of my favorite caffinated beverages with you! (Told you I had something brewing har har..)

The Doppio is two shots of espresso. I don't get it as often as most drinks, but it adds an extra pick me up when I need it.. without weighing me down.

Black coffee is pretty much my everyday drink. Most people don't like the taste of it without sugar or milk, but it tastes great to me. Personally sugar and milk make it fake tasting to me.


The dry not fat cappucino just means that this particular type of cappucino consists of mostly foam. It is super creamy and delicious and probably has less calories than normal drinks A) because it is non fat and B) because it is mostly air lol.



Ahhh my good friend, the soy pumkin spice latte with toffee nut. This is a drink I created while working at Starbucks. It is my seasonal 'little fat girl' beverage. It is super yummy and tastes like grahm crackers. I get mine without whipped cream and with two pumps of toffee nut. Mmmm! It's actually really great iced too!


Last but certainly not least is Vietnamese iced coffee. I love this drink!! It consists of slow brewed dark chicory coffee on top of sweetened condensed milk. Once the whole mixture is done, you add it to a cup of ice. It tastes sooo sooo good, and actually is pretty reasonable to create on your own! Found this kit online for pretty cheap! Once I start making some more monies, it's on my list.

Well there you have it, a few of my favorite coffee drinks! Now don't be afraid to get out and start brewing your own!

FOR THE RECORD..

I have some post ideas brewing, so hang tight....and in the meantime I'll give you some homework.

Read the Following:
Ain't I A Woman? - Soujourner Truth
and
Professions of Women - Virginia Woolf

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YOU WEAR YOU WELL

I know my posts are basically cheats lately, but I need more pictures in my life to counterbalance all the reading. If you don't like it, that's too bad. I think Makenzie is the only person who reads this anyways haha.

P.S. Photo courtesy of my new lens :]

ANOTHER PROCRASTINATION PITY POST

At least this one is relevant to my homework :/

UBSEESED WIF THIZ.

WELP, I DID IT Y'ALL.

This is kind of how I feel right now (a little burnt out and rusty ish) after successfully sending off the box, yes box, that contained my precious application to the school in Cairo. My nerves are a little shot and I can't help but to have that thought in the back of my mind saying 'Ughhhh what if I forgot X' or 'I hope the box gets there in one piece.' School has been draining as well. I don't think I've ever had to read so much in my life. Plato, Charlotte Bronte, Kamala Das, Anne Finch, Pre-Columbian history, Emily Dickinson, Zora Neale Hurston, The Reconquista and many more are listed as done/to do. Pretty sure I'll need glasses in a few years to go along with the hearing aid and wrist bands for arthritis. All processes of getting better with age right?

UGH, FAVORITE NEW PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUE

I may not be the first person in the world to discover actions for photoshop, but I am really going to town. I know I know, I said I really wanted to work on my actual photography.. but this is just too cool. I have so many sub par pictures from various trips, boredum stints, etc. etc. These are two actions I combined to give some not so good pics a neat vintage-y/tilt-shift look.

Ok so maybe I have been cheating, but soon I'll be behind the lens again... and that may have a little something to do with my new lens that should be arriving soon :]

BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO SCHOOL..

Got my lunch pack packed and my boots tied tight, hope I don't get in a fight ohhhhh back to school. I may not be Billy Maddison, but I'll post deets about my classes so far later today.. so if anyone reads this thing consistantly then stay tuned (or not).

School Rant 2010.2:

Pages of reading I have had to complete before today - 30 pages from my history textbook + 20 pages of Plato = 50 pages = many hours.

Done.

Pages of reading I have to do by September 9 (Next Thursday) - 325 pages of Jane Eyre. I'm pretty sure my brain just might explode. Also come to find out every test for every class I have this semester is an essay test. Hooray!

On a postitive note, I recieved one of my letters of recommendation and it was super awesome, in fact I almost teared up a little haha. I have that same professor again this semester so my hope is that I wont let her down.

Anyways with all of this said, I'm going to have NO social life whatsoever. But I am considering throwing homework parties at my apartment so everyone can come hang and get some work done. Ok that's all for now.. back to the books.. literally.

Hilary