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COFFEE!!!

  • Posted on November 4, 2009 at 9:36 am

it occurred to me yesterday, that a person’s coffee habits are more telling about an individual than their own fingerprint. with so many different ways to drink it, i think someone who’s got the time oughta sit down one day and map out the different meanings of coffee preferences.

you take two sugars? that means you have an inquisitive mind.

okay, not really. about the 2 sugars, i mean. i don’t know enough actual people and their coffee preferences to be able to properly decipher it, but i know there’s something to it. i just feel it. when i was in middle school i got a book titled “the complete book of fortune telling”. if someone can tell you your personality quirks by looking at the lines in your hand, the arrangement of tea leaves in the bottom of your cup, or the page number you open a book to, i think something as deeply personal and preferential as coffee preference should speak worlds about a person.

on a regular, every day basis…

  1. do you drink drip or espresso?
  2. what type of liquid do you cut it with? (water, [hot, cold] cream, [regular, whipping, non fat, flavored, etc.] milk [skim, whole, 2%, etc.]
  3. what kind of sweetener, if any do you use? (honey, sugar, equal, splenda, agave nectar, sugar, flavored syrup, etc.)
  4. how many cups? (or shots, if you drink espresso)
  5. what is your favorite coffee cup?
  6. when do you drink your coffee? (first thing in the morning, every once in a while as a treat, never)
  7. if you don’t drink coffee, what do you prefer when you are in a situation where everybody else is drinking coffee?  (tea, hot chocolate, etc)

me? i prefer 4 shots of espresso, in steamed skim milk, with one shot of hazelnut flavoring syrup in my black latte mug first damn thing in the morning. in the afternoon, if i need a quick pick me up, i’ll get 2 shots of espresso in steamed whole milk, with half a shot of hazelnut flavoring syrup in a smaller white latte mug. i like other forms of coffee, but those are what i most commonly drink.

my husband drinks about 15 ozs of cold whole milk with 2-3 ice cubes and two shots of espresso thrown on top, so he can watch the espresso swirl down to the bottom, first thing in the morning. if he needs a pick me up, he makes another of the same thing.

i just know there’s a personality profile in there somewhere… so how do you take your joe?

Coffee

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Webster’s Wednesday: Luculent

  • Posted on at 9:07 am

luculent • \LOO-kyuh-lunt\  • adjective

: clear in thought or expression : lucid

Example Sentence:

“I have heard, for example, a luculent description of poor Allister Campbell, and another drudge of the same class, running a race after dinner for a new pair of breeches.” (John G. Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott)

Did you know?

To shed light on the meaning of “luculent,” one need only look at its root — the Latin noun “lux,” meaning “light.” The English word first appeared in the 15th century with the meaning “brilliant” or “shining,” as in “a luculent flame.” By the mid-16th century, the “clear in thought or expression” sense had begun to shine, and by that century’s end another sense was flickering with the meaning “illustrious” or “resplendent” (as in Ben Jonson’s 1599 description of a “most debonair and luculent lady”). Both the “illustrious” and the “emitting light” sense have fallen out of use, and even the “clear” sense is now rare. (When it does appear, it is typically in humorous contexts in which the writer is intentionally choosing obscure words.) Today’s writers seem to prefer another “lux” descendant with a similar meaning: “lucid.”

my thoughts haven’t been very luculent lately. but even through the murky waters of exhaustion… i can still see why i’ve never heard this word before. i haven’t said it out loud yet, but in my head it sticks to my thoughts like too much peanut butter. it’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s obscure enough that my wordpress spell checker has put that annoying jaggy red line under it. in other words, they are making it perfectly luculent that they don’t like the word luculent.

:o P

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