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Tea
We have a tea/book shop in town where you can go drink tea and read and purchase books--they have a small selection that gets rotated out, I believe. I dropped by for the first time yesterday, with my laptop, and put in a couple of hours of time actually writing.
(a) The have Assam tea! This ensures I will return, because in this area of the world any cafe-type place that claims to offer a variety of tea actually offers a variety of substances that give you the sensation you're drinking potpourri, and not tea. Tea may be involved at some point, but overall, potpourri.
We have written off a coffee-and-biscuits place that opened near campus because literally the closest thing they had to plain black tea was Earl Grey, and when I emailed to ask if there was a chance that they could add something like Assam or Darjeeling to their rotation because I disliked teas that tasted like potpourri, the proprietor instead said they had green tea and then proceeded to mansplain green tea at me. I considered explaining back that the only cup of green tea I've ever liked is the one I had prepared the traditional way at a Japanese monastery that I drank in the temple grounds while listening to the chanting of monks, and that his green tea was never going to equal that experience, especially given that his much-vaunted biscuits were actually sort of dry, in order to out-snooty him, but in the end decided not to and deleted the email.
(b) So apparently I'm a coffeeshop writing person, which I never expected. This makes 3 out of 3 times that I've brought my laptop to a coffeeshop-type place (the first two were Starbucks, while waiting a couple hours to meet people for something) and actually got writing done. I didn't expect that, because I couldn't ever study while in a place like that, but I guess the difference is that I'm currently hyperfocused on this story and I have never been hyperfocused on my studies.
(a) The have Assam tea! This ensures I will return, because in this area of the world any cafe-type place that claims to offer a variety of tea actually offers a variety of substances that give you the sensation you're drinking potpourri, and not tea. Tea may be involved at some point, but overall, potpourri.
We have written off a coffee-and-biscuits place that opened near campus because literally the closest thing they had to plain black tea was Earl Grey, and when I emailed to ask if there was a chance that they could add something like Assam or Darjeeling to their rotation because I disliked teas that tasted like potpourri, the proprietor instead said they had green tea and then proceeded to mansplain green tea at me. I considered explaining back that the only cup of green tea I've ever liked is the one I had prepared the traditional way at a Japanese monastery that I drank in the temple grounds while listening to the chanting of monks, and that his green tea was never going to equal that experience, especially given that his much-vaunted biscuits were actually sort of dry, in order to out-snooty him, but in the end decided not to and deleted the email.
(b) So apparently I'm a coffeeshop writing person, which I never expected. This makes 3 out of 3 times that I've brought my laptop to a coffeeshop-type place (the first two were Starbucks, while waiting a couple hours to meet people for something) and actually got writing done. I didn't expect that, because I couldn't ever study while in a place like that, but I guess the difference is that I'm currently hyperfocused on this story and I have never been hyperfocused on my studies.