Sweetwaters Coffee Tea

Asked the barista to surprise me and i had a lovely lavender and vanilla latte! Also their cakes are so good. Good place to study.

Had some time to burn between tutoring a student and meeting my mother who had come down for happy hour on her way to the airport. I’ve been thinking about impulses lately. Nothing salacious. This was at 3:30 pm. It was cold outside, and I’m on a iced-latte kick. You get it: coffee now or sleep at night. Yet, I let that latte urge take over, even though sweetwater’s goes a little light on the milk (see Paige Utah review). One of my wonders is whether this is similar to what happens with the phone in bed. I started leaving my phone out of the bedroom overnight which helped a lot, but I’m back at it. Here’s the thing: when I open up the news page, a wiki article, a single video, I know I’m going to lose at least an hour. It’s an addiction, clearly, right? Caffeine is a drug, clearly, right? Or is impulse control a bigger factor? And here’s where I get in trouble—although this is almost certainly not true, I tell myself that part of it might be my soul rebelling against the notion that there is some correct way I should be spending my time. Or time can spent or that spending should be somehow someway responsible. Some people might call that perspective procrastination veneered. Anyway, it’s true that I like feeling alive. The latte here gave me more of that than most articles and videos (which have the worst aftertaste). Maybe that’s the difference.Mother is doing well. About to get a new puppy. Very happy for her.

Wow, rude staff! We ordered food and drinks after a movie at the Michigan Theater, in a college town. They didn’t tell us they closed! We were rudely told we had to leave, they were closed. It would have been courteous of them to tell us they were closing. We would have made another choice. Will never go there again.

Great local coffee shop. Friendly staff, nice chairs to sit and kill some

Good food and good coffee. I just wished that they had some interesting mugs for dine-in.