April 15th, 2006
S-A! T-U-R! D-A-Y! Write!
I have only to get through the rest of today. Then I can drink coffee again! I’ve spent the last few days trying to figure out, numerically and theologically, how I could move that up, but nothing has worked out. The fact is that Holy Saturday is the 40th day of Lent (since Sundays don’t count), and Easter begins, at the very, VERY earliest, tonight, with the end of the Great Vigil services. And I’m too old to be drinking coffee at 10pm anymore and still expect to get any good sleep.
So tomorrow morning, I’m planning to get up, make a big pot of my Community Coffee (support them! They’re doing GREAT things in New Orleans and southern Louisiana), and savor it. I fully expect to be totally jittery during church. Frankly, I’m OK with that.
Tomorrow’s Easter feast will probably get its own post, if it turns out OK. I’m using a Cook’s Illustrated recipe from several years ago for a roasted boneless leg of lamb topped with a parmesan and bread crumb crust. Along with it will be spinach wilted in bacon fat with garlic and balsamic, a pan of GFPs (Good Effing Potatoes, a brunch tradition from Our Old City, always made by one of our friends) and, for dessert, whiskey bread pudding. My lavender Easter suit will not fit when the day is done, but that’s OK. It’ll just go back in the closet until, I don’t know, some other holiday when it’s OK to wear a pastel linen-and-silk suit.
But until then, I’m working on my Property outline. Or should be. Exams are much too soon for comfort. This week will be very busy, I think.
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Dude! Don’t do it! If you’ve gone 40 days w/out caffiene, don’t ever go back! Enjoy your new sense of balance, your natural energy cycles, your lack of dependency on some foreign substance, plus all the money and time you’ll save not bothering to buy or make coffee all the time.
Really — why go back?
(I’m posting this out of envy. If I could go 40 days w/out coffee I’d be jumping for joy and looking forward to the next 400 days w/out my bad bad habit.)
divine angst: S-A! T-U-R! D-A-Y! Write!
http://divineangst.com/archives/2006/04/sa_tur_day_writ.html Dude!… Enjoy your new sense of balance, your natural energy cycles, your lack of dependency on some foreign substance, plus all the money and time you’ll save not bothering to bu…
Um, because I didn’t give up caffeine — I’ve been drinking hot tea every day instead — I just gave up coffee because I enjoy it so much. Hot tea is nice, but just does not make me as happy as coffee. The flavor, the aroma…I don’t drink coffee solely to keep me awake, etc. I genuinely like coffee.
Ah. Gotcha. My bad.
No prob. It’s an easy mistake; a bunch of people have been more in awe of me than they should have when I’ve mentioned giving up coffee. It’s just that I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, and if I’m going to give something up for Lent, I want it to be something I’ll really miss. Coffee . . . ah, coffee. How I miss it.
community coffee are doing wondrous things for the city! nola def needs the help. so keep drinking Kristine