November is
the craziest time of the entire college semester. It is as if all the professors decide to sit
down and compare turn-in dates for research papers, and decide that it is in
their students’ best interest if they bottle neck all the due dates around the
last two weeks of the semester. I love
how, at the drop of a hat, we have to pick a topic and write it down on paper
so the professor will know the angle that each paper will take. I don’t know about most students, but I don’t
try to think of my term project first week, or even month of school, for all
that matters. I like to get into the
subject matter of the class and see if there is a new idea to explore that I’d
never thought of before. Now, I need to
write three lengthy non-fiction pieces, two research papers, and one short
article for my Journalism class (mercifully that one is short). Sometimes I look at my work load and ask
myself, “Am I crazy?” Tonight, after
eating leftover pea soup and corn bread with a strong cup of pumpkin coffee for
a little kick, I finally sat down at eight o’clock to work on finishing a paper
which is due tomorrow for creative non-fiction, reading five more student
essays for critique in that same class, and get started on another assignment
for yet another class, sixteenth and seventeenth century British
literature. I have not even figured out
how time consuming that one will be. Hopefully,
the coffee will hold out and I will get most of my work done before I go to
bed.
Pumpkin Coffee Boost
Lots of people like to make
their own individual style of coffee.
Some like it filtered, some instant, others crave cappuccino or espresso;
my husband and I like Turkish coffee, in which you boil two coffee cups of
water and scoop two heaping teaspoons full of Bosnian espresso (finely ground)
coffee. Let the coffee sit for at least
five minutes before serving, and be careful, as this coffee can be very strong!
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