This is Embarrassing

I got the neatest thing from America's favorite and most hated franchise yesterday. Their instruction booklet! It's about a 10-minute read, deconstructing the various options with info on how to throw all the terms together for a meaningful, reasonably priced cup of coffee. On the one hand, I'm a little annoyed (as is everyone) that it takes a well-written, well-researched pamphlet to buy things from Starbuck's. On the other hand, I like how they assume a basic level of literacy before you can get into the complicated stuff.

I didn't have a lot of opportunity to try out all the coffee options and such while I was in college. A little phobic and incredibly shy, and I was poor. I also think I was in college before coffee shops moved from the Disgruntled Intellectuals to the General Public. I mostly didn't want to be around those people. But it's okay now except that I still don't want to be around those people*. This isn't all that much an issue now that little espresso shots in various forms of milk are a mass-market thing.

I still gotta lay off that stuff. Fattening and expensive. Well, the Target I go to is going to be trashed by mid-May anyhow so it won't be an issue. More on that later.

*Except for one with the initials CMC.