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Tonya Morton's avatar

Night coffee is the best coffee, even if it's bad coffee. It's so illicit. It's a treat. And it often accompanies a dessert, which is its own kind of pleasurable sin. It's saying "I don't care how I feel in two hours when I'm inexplicably in bed, staring at the ceiling and I can't think of anything except lists of tasks I could probably get up and do right now if it weren't so late, and emails I could be writing, but it's after midnight and those emails would be total gibberish. But I'm not tired, and I'm just lying here, and today was utterly meaningless and I shouldn't ever eat dessert after 8pm and I have accomplished nothing with my life."

Okay, so yeah, it's like drugs. But I still find it so romantic to drink coffee at night.

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CJ Surbaugh's avatar

Somehow I think I've also written the exact sentence "I do believe in a bunch of people together in a room drinking bad coffee." The other day I joked to one of my divinity school classmates that everyone who goes to church is annoying, that's why we're there. Despite church being full of the most annoying people on earth and the weakest coffee I have ever drank I still go every week because unfortunately I think God is here for the annoying people, of which I am the worst.

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