As for the barista, who served me my coffee but was cleaning up near the window when he said that, I think he was partaking of a little people-watching as a particularly attractive young woman walked by.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I sent my students a somewhat nasty or potentially snarky email early in the morning while I was preparing to leave.<\/p>\n
You would have to know how I’ve become upset with their whining to know that there was a snarky undertone, and I doubt they’ll get it. I doubt I managed to put the “Fear of Me” into them, as I did once last semester when the quality of their essays left something to be desired.<\/p>\n
I didn’t sleep. I did talk with Leena and with Nate … multipe times, the former as she was at work and when she was on the way home and when she was trying to get something from a dry cleaner that had closed and and and.<\/p>\n
My taxi was scheduled for 4:40 but came 5 minutes early, so I had to dump my coffee and oatmeal, and both are probably clogging the kitchen sink now, which is full of dirty dishes that I didn’t get around to cleaning before leaving.<\/p>\n
That scans well.<\/p>\n
Cleaning before leaving.<\/p>\n
Cleanliness is next to goneliness!<\/p>\n
In any case …<\/p>\n
The drive was painless, the driver was friendly and chatty, the check-in was simple (swipe credit card, punch buttons, go to security … do not pass go). I waited for a long time at the gate, but get THIS<\/em>: There is an Ancora coffee (next to Gate 7, my gate), but what’s better is that their prices are typical Madison Ancora pricces, not inflated airport prices. Cup of Joe? $1.50. I can get behind that.<\/p>\n There is the fact that most of the women working there have female mullets or the equivalent.<\/p>\n More later.<\/p>\n Now I sit in a coffee shop in L.A., near Wilshire and Westwood, actually at Lindbrook and Westwood, called Peet’s Coffee. There is a homeless-like-guy out front with a cart full of black garbage bags filled with his “stuff.” He has a purple-ish rain hat and a winter jacket. He’s sitting at a table reading the sports section of the LA Times, and he has long, gray hair in need of a wash and cut. New-ish running shoes adorn his feet, but his fingers are grimy.<\/p>\n I’ll meet Leena at 7 her time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As for the barista, who served me my coffee but was cleaning up near the window when he said that, I think he was partaking of a little people-watching as a particularly attractive young woman walked by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[96,150,422],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace","tag-coffee","tag-teaching-2","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}