house blend with half and half

i'm sitting in arsaga's on gregg right now. neil young is singing to me from the coffee shop speakers. i cannot go to any other coffee shop in fayetteville because to me, they are all impersonal and have coffee i don't like. for example, the perk is too far away from me, and their lattes never taste like it has real coffee in them. arsaga's II on crossover is the opposite of gregg, for they take credit card and not check where here they take check and not credit card. and RZ's... lets not even talk about that. anywhere else might be good, but its probably too far to drive. here there is free internet, interesting people, and a wonderfully large mosaic tiled table perfect for doing research and people watching.

speaking of research, i am currently attempting to embark on the paper i have to write for my politics of the middle east class. i chose to write mine on turkey, mainly because Ian is reading a concise history of China, so out of respect for another poli sci brain head like myself who loves to take interest in other people's "claimed" countries, i will write about turkey. right now the task proves daunting as i have yet to crack any of the many books sitting to my right. and i also haven't decided what angle to take in my paper, whether to write about women in islam in turkey, or turkey's desire to enter the EU, the challenge of turkey to europe and the u.s., or the so-called secularization of turkey but the challenge of an actual islamic society... oh the possibilities. i would love writing on any of those, and there is much information to find on a number of subjects. but right now i am indecisive.

i think i'm going with mac n' cheese.

posted by *g* @ 4:15 PM