Coffee Cravings…
Coffee Cravings…
You know you are spoiled in life when you are in my boat and you consider it a great injustice that here it is almost 5 pm and you have not had a second cup of coffee yet today. Here I sit. I have been on the run all day with just a few moments this morning when I got to pull myself a shot before running out the door. On the bright side that shot was of Chazzano’s Papua new Guinea blend and it was quite enjoyable. I even split it so that I could have half the shot straight and the other half could be pulled into a cappuccino. It worked well in both contexts, but then I ran out the door and I have been in meetings of one sort or the other ever since.
I did have a seven minute break, but even though the pavoni heats up incredibly quickly it is not fast enough to pull a shot an clean it up in that time (10 minutes might be enough though).
I lamented this missing coffee every time I did slow down for a minute, but only now did I get to stop and think, yes I could finally have that drink. Alas, it being almost five, the kind of drink I have now does not likely have caffeine in it. I decided to console myself by writing about the coffee instead.
I remember learning once that there was a study where they showed that if a kid pretended to shoot and make free throws for one hundred shots in a row visualizing success it was at least as likely to improve their free throw shooting percentage as actual practice. I think perhaps there is a parallel here that shows why I love blogging about coffee. I do not normally want to drink more than three drinks of coffee a day although it does not have major negative effects on days when I have more as long as I do not make it the norm, but perhaps by blogging about coffee I can get some of the pleasure without having to go over my quotient?
I wonder if there are any studies suggesting that thinking about coffee has any of the positive effects that drinking coffee does from extra energy to the contentment coffee gives us? I would not be surprised if the answer was that it worked the same to at least some extent. Hey, if it works in sports, why not in coffee?
You know you are spoiled in life when you are in my boat and you consider it a great injustice that here it is almost 5 pm and you have not had a second cup of coffee yet today. Here I sit. I have been on the run all day with just a few moments this morning when I got to pull myself a shot before running out the door. On the bright side that shot was of Chazzano’s Papua new Guinea blend and it was quite enjoyable. I even split it so that I could have half the shot straight and the other half could be pulled into a cappuccino. It worked well in both contexts, but then I ran out the door and I have been in meetings of one sort or the other ever since.
I did have a seven minute break, but even though the pavoni heats up incredibly quickly it is not fast enough to pull a shot an clean it up in that time (10 minutes might be enough though).
I lamented this missing coffee every time I did slow down for a minute, but only now did I get to stop and think, yes I could finally have that drink. Alas, it being almost five, the kind of drink I have now does not likely have caffeine in it. I decided to console myself by writing about the coffee instead.
I remember learning once that there was a study where they showed that if a kid pretended to shoot and make free throws for one hundred shots in a row visualizing success it was at least as likely to improve their free throw shooting percentage as actual practice. I think perhaps there is a parallel here that shows why I love blogging about coffee. I do not normally want to drink more than three drinks of coffee a day although it does not have major negative effects on days when I have more as long as I do not make it the norm, but perhaps by blogging about coffee I can get some of the pleasure without having to go over my quotient?
I wonder if there are any studies suggesting that thinking about coffee has any of the positive effects that drinking coffee does from extra energy to the contentment coffee gives us? I would not be surprised if the answer was that it worked the same to at least some extent. Hey, if it works in sports, why not in coffee?
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