Coffee Musings - 091207

I'm going through a mid-life crisis, but it's not as if it's the first one. I go through a few a year. I decided to give up chocolate until the Orioles have a winning season or until Brian Roberts is traded. Whichever comes first. It's not that bad a thing. It means I can try other flavors like emphasize nuts. However, it also means that whatever I had in store for my life that included baking, I may have to readjust. Instead of cookies how about bread? Well, there's still so much that can be baked with fruits or nuts, it's not that big a deal. However, it is a statement, hopefully a synergistic statement, that to give up something is to give it to someone else. Also, whenever I successfully give up chocolate for a year or so I move to a new state. I've tried to give up chocolate recently, and it lasted maybe a day. If I can do this I expect to move within a year. That would be cool, eh?

I just finished Heat by Bill Buford, and I'm reading Dirt Music by Tim Winton. It is a breath of fresh air to read fiction. That is why I want to focus on instead of baking. I want to run and I want to read. Whenever that happens it reminds me of my sophomore year in college, which although not the most active, was the most enjoyable. It was a freeing year in some way. I felt beautiful. Sometimes too much activity, like what happened my junior year, leaves a film on the skin.