Published February 20, 2007 by

Karlsonwilker

tellmewhy.jpgToday I scraped a bargain. A $60 book for a simple $10.

I cannot yet call myself a fully fledged designer (I’m about 4 official years away from that) and I sometimes feel sheepish about the fact that I don’t like wasting money on magazines – which you know, is a lot of what I’ll probably end up doing. I’m sure there is great benefit to knowing objective, the competition, the actuality of the business. And I don’t really own any design books as they cost about one million in comparison to my hastily diminishing monetary fund.

This is my first buy in terms of a book about design. I have one textbook but that’s about multimedia and one on programing (a hideous pink thing) and this.

This is: tellmewhy – the first 24 months of a New York Design Company. It has a pen mark on the front, hence the drastic reduction and you know, maybe it’s been sitting on the shelf for two or more years. Prior bookshop employee knowledge tells me that covers can be cleaned with eucalyptus oil (or you know water and soap) and hence noted pen mark will become an almost invisible short score line. If I can be bothered.

I started reading shortly after purchase at a university cafe with glorious boho coffee (cup didn’t match the saucer and gave me secret thrills. Weird). The coffee was a mere $2 but worth more. I nearly forgot the coffee for the monograph. Now I’m just showing off (it means book). It’s pleasantly engrossing.

I don’t like buying books new, perhaps such a success will promote an unleashing of my pocket. I hope not. But I do like it.

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Published February 7, 2007 by

Too Latte?

52982_pl.jpgYesterday I began to have thoughts again about another coffee detox.  After contemplating it for maybe five minutes or so I realised that I was going out the following day (that’s today) for coffee with Susannah and then perhaps Analise. Not a good time to impliment anything of the sort.

I came to the conclusion that it’s, no coffee for me when I’m out on my own and just happen to pass somewhere, I have to be out with someone for the whole morning/afternoon tea thing or it has to be the rare occasion I specificially take myself out for an afternoon. This of course will not be too much of a shock to the system until I go back to uni – which is also probably when I will reinstate limits instead of an entire ban.

Today of course I come across the following article: Giving Up the Latte. They’re hounding me! Perhaps I can rigidly record every single dollar I spend at cafes and so scare myself?

By the way… don’t bother with the Gloria Jean’s new Vanilla Honey Chai Latte it’s horribly sweet and I did genuinely feel sick after it.

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Published December 22, 2006 by

Theology of Glory

cafeLazy blogging often includes links to interesting articles. As ‘lazy blogging’ is the flavor of the day, this article proved interesting to my own today-apathetic self (believe me, without a car you feel stranded – even if I don’t have anywhere to go).

So here goes: The Theology of Glory

tip: bypass the ‘how we got to the interview’ section at the start unless you’re me and like reading everything in excess.

Why is this interesting Rebecca? Well… in the continuation – slow it may be – of my reading,The Pleasures of God (John Piper), this is some of the the stuff that I’ve been thinking a little about. To work that what that is out, you must read it.

I am throughly encouraged that God continues to understand that I seem to need a lot of related information shoved at me at particular times for certain themes and ideas to really sink in.

If you have not known me long you will not have realised that my memory is very insufficient and although I get excited about ideas (like such presented in this article) if you come to me a moment later I will have only the slightest scercik of an idea of even what it is on about. I catch a thread and unless I spend an immense amount of time investigating and WRITING IT OUT it just disappears.

Sadly I might just have to live with never being one of those cool 3rd year uni smarts sitting in a cafe having interesting and philosophical discussions over coffee-glorious-coffee with other like-brained and diverse individuals. There goes that dream…

Bear with me. Get some coffee, read up. Share some thoughts if you have any and I might work out what got me that little bit enthused and all those extra marvelous thoughts will come rushing back. Something like a coffee hit – but better.

I think that’s a very long winded way of telling you that the article is good… for some reason I can’t fully remember or adequately describe.

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Published November 8, 2006 by

Solving procrastination

patternI avoided exam study all day. Concentration was not an option.

By 3:30pm I’d had enough so I took my lecture slides and sample questions to Morrison’s (the cafe I frequent) to get away from all the distractions at home. I ordered a latte and actually got some work done.

I thoroughly recommend this strategy.

Coffee General

Published November 3, 2006 by

Cups

mikasa cups

Well, yesterday afternoon Samantha and I went downtown and happened to have a poke around in the Salvo’s OpShop. Contrary to the very non-spontaneous person I am, my eyes lighted on this rather suave looking set of cups. I maintain that the photo doesn’t do them justice.

I think have a bit of a thing for mugs and the like. They are some Mikasa brand – which apparently is reasonably decent, not that I’d know, they are clearly very retro. They don’t have any chips and cost me a grand total of $2.50 (I hit on it being half price on purple tag day).

My only disappointment is that two of the cups and saucers – there are six, are the same colour and not all different. Really can’t complain.

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