– Oh, well. I wasted my youth, so I guess I can work hard now.
– You didn’t waste it. You had fun.
– Had I but known, I would have had more fun!

“If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you don’t have to work.”

— Ogden Nash

Oh, I so find milk foam useless and annoying also… Ughhh

“Hot milk greatly improves the taste of coffee, but I find milk foam useless and annoying. My mother (who makes the most delicious coffee in the world), is obsessed with a particularly potent mechanical foam maker. The result is a layer of impenetrable foam, a kind of lacto-stucco. I have to gnaw my way through it before being able to get to the actual coffee. Apart from that she really makes the best coffee in the world.”

By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

“No man is crushed by hostile Fortune who is not first deceived by her smiles.”

— Seneca the Younger

Today was bitter and chilly but with the sun shining… A day that reminded me of the day a few months back… It wasn’t as heartaching and gloomy but it still made me post these silly yet meaningful lines I wrote back then:

Tell me something that cheers me up…
On a white day like today,
I need my spirit to fly up.

While frozen in this bloody shell…
I’m asking the man above all,
to send me a Hank Moody and a puff puff.

Oh, yes!
that will make my soul to go high, high, high…

Now I’m back to the reality of life and its originality… It’s surprising how swimming in scented bubbles and listening to Carla in her classic monotone can swing your mood… I now crave an incredible pause in the moment… In this magical moment…

Très bonsoir!

S

“People should worry about each other. Because worry is just love in its worst form. But it’s still love.”

— Simon Gray, British playwright

Now, this reminds me of my own collection of short, tall, grande and venti cups… Sadly, I had to get rid of almost a hundred cups a couple of months ago when moving to our new office space!

“I order large coffees, but stop drinking when the coffee gets too cold. There’s always a couple of ounces left in the cup, so I can’t just toss it into my wastebasket. I dread the long haul to the bathroom to properly dispose of the coffee remains. Hence you will usually find a tower of paper cups on my desk.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

Oh, I *heart* this one…

“Here’s a chart that shows my coffee bias over the years.

For good measure I have added my bagel preferences over the same period. (1) Drip coffee, (2) Starbucks, (3) blueberry bagels, (4) sesame bagels, (5) poppy-seed bagels, (6) everything bagels

Please don’t hold my brief affair with blueberry bagels against me. I cured myself of this aberration.”

— By Christoph Niemann – The New York Times

“I get a lecture from my therapist every week which boils down to: pull your socks up. Okay, it’s a bit more sophisticated than that… it’s working and I love it.

Thoughts, my therapist says, are very untrustworthy things. Don’t buy into them. some thoughts are useful – learn to recognize these. Ditch the others. And just because you feel something, it doesn’t mean it’s true.”

— Amy Jenkins in The Independent

“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”

— Françoise Sagan