at least the coffee tastes really great. almost worth it.

today, i bought a starbucks coffee with much unwillingness. normally, i would buy a regular brewed coffee from Mcdonalds Matalino but for some undisclosed reason (undisclosed to me), the said Mcdonalds branch is closed indefinitely. my next alternative would be Burger King's BK Joe. But given the rainy weather, i dont feel like travelling some considerable distance because the cold weather is aggravating my lower back pain. its been days now since this lower back pain started. anyway, i need some coffee because despite the long weekend, i have lots of work to do. since im going to be working at home, coffee is a must because whenever i work inside my room, the usual scenario is i end up sleeping instead. this is why i always work at Burger King or some other noisy fast food restaurant where i can plug my laptop with its useless battery (almost useless. it has enough juice to enable me to shut off the laptop properly whenever there is a blackout). i can still work despite the noise because i think there's something wrong with my ears. when im in an open space, i noticed that the sound volume is the same regardless of distance. so a person talking from far away has the same volume as a person talking near me. that's why i easily get disoriented when a lot of people are talking at the same time in a big room because the sound coming from all the talking people appear to be of the same volume. sometimes i cant even determine which one is talking because the voice of the farther person has the same sound level as the person talking near me. i guess this is also the reason i easily get distracted in public places because i always pick up the sound coming from my surrounding area.

going back, i dont have anything against starbucks. i just dont really want to buy expensive coffee. and starbucks always reminds me of my freshman college mentality (my marxist phase). due to this, i always try not to go to starbucks as much as i can. it makes me feel really uncomfortable (so uncomfortable that i want to get out of the place quickly after i get my order. but i pretend im not in a hurry to leave). but then again, after i got my coffee, i felt like a hypocrite. saying to myself that i used to despise a place that primarily caters to well-off people (or people who can afford to buy a cup of coffee that can feed a family of three, maybe even more) when i have with me an Ateneo umbrella and listening to my mp3 player with a pair of Sennheiser earphones (an expensive school and an expensive brand). and i was seriously considering buying one of their expensive thermal mugs (again, an expensive product). it made me think that maybe deep inside i like starbucks because it wouldnt be the first time that im very critical of something i really like.

anyway, the rainy weather is nice and there's a long weekend too but i cant enjoy it as much because of the work i must do.