No Internet at Home = Better Breakfast

If you take away a girl's internet,

she will travel to the coffee shop.

(Ok, fine, it's more a bakery that serves coffee.)

And if you put this girl in a coffee shop (bakery),

she will find a scone.

The scone was terrible.

The University of the People

I believe in public education.  Today, I appreciate my University of North Carolina not only for my extremely low in-state tuition degree, but for experiences like this

and for $10 student tickets to most performances on campus. $10 to see Wynton Marsalis and Mitsuko Uchida? Awesome. Our tax dollars at work.

Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRAM!! Gramps, not that you don't spoil her everyday, but take good care of the ol' lady today. Love you, Gram!

How Did You Get This Number?

Three pieces of evidence that the book I just finished was great: 

1) It was given to me by a great friend who knows/shares my taste, 

2) I hugged the book when I finished it, and 

3) It is now in an envelope to be sent to another great friend.

Ladies, invest in a Sloane Crosley book.

Dudes, you may like it too?

Carrburrito's

My long lost Mexican love.  

Best when eaten in the company of friends as reliably enjoyable as the food.

Big Girl Caffeine

I am not a coffee drinker. 

Understatement. I've never had a cup of coffee. I've scrunched my nose after small sips of the coffee of others, but I've never had a cup of coffee.  I've never desired to change this either...until I was in San Francisco and the roasteries smelled so damn good and the coffee drinkers looked so damn cool. Well, I never made it to the cool SF roasteries, so I did it up Raleigh style.

Per recommendation from my barista/piano teacher/kindred, Janna, I made my first big girl caffeine experience a cappuccino at Morning Times downtown.  

The spot was charming and bright with Raleigh sunlight. The cappuccino? I think I'm just a tea girl...

It's Autumn

The chorus in North Carolina is very, "Where is fall? We skipped right to winter!" But, after hearing that it is snowing in Massachusetts, it feels very autumn to me in NC.

Cotton on the Roadside, Cotton in the Ditch

An unfriendly and terrifying (to me) collie chased me back to my car after I snapped this.  

Dedication to the craft.