Wednesday, June 18, 2003


jury duty

sitting in that ugly little room certainly gets in the way of your morning coffee.

i had to start the morning with a starbucks triple cappucino. that's how bad it was, walking to the brooklyn courthouse in a miserable rain. after sitting for 8 hours, i was hastily dismissed. no trials for me.

i celebrated by returning to starbucks for what was possibly the only drinkable doppio espresso i've ever seen in any starbucks. on the other hand, they had just ground the coffee (only because the doser was empty!) and these new superautomatics the persons-behind-the-counter -- you can't call them baristi, alas! -- now use does make it fairly mindless.

i sat at a tiny table and stared half out the window, catty-corner at one of those crazy starbucks murals. faux retro or whatever. at least i found a small moment of peace in a porcelain cup. and sometimes that's enough.

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