I can’t believe what a lazy blogger I’ve been. I don’t want to bother recapping. Right now, I’m in Birmingham, AL, and one of the world’s cutest independant coffee shops called Lucy’s Coffee… it reminds me of my absolute favorite coffee shop ever, which was in New Orleans, (and I blogged every morning from there as well.) I think that’s what reminded me to get my ass on here, thinking about being in NOLA and having these relaxing mornings at a coffee shop and then teaching classes (like I’m off to do in about five minutes…)
Next door to here is a Starbucks. I love Starbucks, but I hate how they purposely try and eat up places like this one. I’d choose here any and everyday, even it if meant no more shaken ice tea lemonades or frappucinos ever again.
Birmingham is pretty damn cool. It reminds me of LA or Philly in terms of the economic discrepancy that is separated by blocks, not towns. We drove through some pretty run down places last night to get to the movie theater (we saw Borat,) and ended up at a High-Class nicer than Redmond Town Center-ish shopping town destination.
And, it was all decorated for Christmas. I get my most home sick when it’s leading up to Christmas… all I can think about is coming home. But we have Birmingham and Korea before that, and Korea is going to be a whole year’s worth of scary and a whole year’s worth of work stuffed into 10 days. I wish, right now, it was Novemeber 22nd and I was home prepping my belly for lots and lots and lots of food.
Soon… (sigh.)
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