Thursday, November 29, 2007

I fear it is very obvious that I haven't been putting much effort into my blogs recently. Last night I threw a couple of poorly written sentences in with a few cool pictures in hopes to appease those who might get on my case for not blogging, and for that I was wrong. But today!, I'm having one of those mornings that starts slowly and continues slowly until all of the sudden it is now afternoon. It is one of those mornings where I have time to lay in my hammock, have a cup of joe and ponder about things, such as where in the world did the phrase "cup of joe" come from? Yes, today is starting off well. Just a few moments ago I took a stroll down to pick up my laundry from the lavandería and enjoyed the 82 degree morning air and the sunshine that most people can't on November 29th. It's a lazy day and I'm going to enjoy it because when I get back from my trip on Monday I will have so many papers to write that I won't notice anything having to do with the climate. Actually that probably won't start until Tuesday because I kind of want to go to the beach on Monday...But after Monday it's all business here.

Well I'm off to San Cristobal this evening. I'll be on a bus for 15 hours tonight but will wake up in the mountains wondering why it has to be so cold there. So until Monday, or maybe Tuesday...

Se vayan bien

2 comments:

Brent said...

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"Cup of joe" is an American nickname for coffee. The phrase goes back to the mid-1840s, and is of unclear origin, though it is possibly short for "Old Black Joe," the title of a popular Stephen Foster song. In any case, it predates Josephus Daniels, the Secretary of the Navy who banned the serving of alcohol on ships in 1914.

Another possible origin lies in the birth of America's taste for coffee, which developed in the 19th century after tea was no longer available from British merchants. The phrase may have come into the American English language via a misunderstanding of the French word chaud, which means "hot" and is pronounced similarly.

Adam Lauchner said...

ok, bub. It's thursday, what happened to "monday or tuesday"? I shall assume that you have been too busy with studying or papers...although I have a suspicion that this is not the case ;)