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Surfaces
My coffeeshop has been going through a remodelling process over the past several months – a process we have occasionally had reason to suspect was orchestrated to make a lot of noise, so as to move us...
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Coffee Blogging
I think my affection for my coffee shop has long since reached the level where I should just create a “coffee blogging” category and have done with it. I can’t imagine anyone actually wanting to read...
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Delicacies
I’ve blogged before about my fondness for my favourite coffee shop – and about how, at times, my affection for this place causes me to forget that some elements of the environment might be slightly…...
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Concentration
The other day, I received an out-of-the-blue apology from a friend. This deeply confused me, as I had no idea what had given them the impression they needed to apologise. I eventually worked out that...
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Coffee and Spirit
So, in a flashback to last summer, I’ve been working on Hegel in the coffee shop. My habit when working on a difficult text is to photocopy or print out the section on which I’m intending to write, so...
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Weekend Relations
My coffee shop has recently begun opening on weekends. During the week, I often work here because the office is too busy – I’m more likely to find uninterrupted thinking and writing time in the coffee...
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Moving In
I often work on my laptop in the coffee shop. For months, this meant that, whenever the battery ran low, if I were in the middle of something and needed to keep working, I had to relocate from my usual...
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The Accident of Design
So for the past few weeks, when I’ve been able to fight the crowds to get to my usual spot in my coffee shop (as I type this, one of my postgrad students has walked past and casually asked, “Oh! So is...
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The Daily Grind
I love the fact that I am so expected to work in my coffee shop, that people who are trying to reach me leave notes with the staff – and that the staff promptly give these to me, treating the matter as...
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Lending My Coffee Shop a Hand
So I’m not sure whether this counts as one of drew’s blurry lines or not, but this morning I found myself in my coffee shop, surrounded by an unusual amount of apparatus (even for me). I had the laptop...
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