I am not a heavy coffee drinker after lunch. I will only ever resort to a strong dose of caffeine in the late afternoons or the evenings when I am studying for an upcoming exam and I need to stay up late. But on a day to day routine, my lattes are usually for the morning and occasionally in the late afternoon when I'm out with my wife for a snack or something! I don't make the rules!
But I am all for breaking the rules!
I was on night admission duty last night from 8 p.m. at the busiest Hospital in the country, arguably the busiest anywhere in the world. And medicine admission nights are the absolute worst. We joke around with colleagues to somehow just weather the storm when time seems to stop on all our watches. And after countless cups of instant shit coffee the night somehow ended. The clock struck 8 a.m. when all pointers suggested that 8 a.m. would never come. It was probably that last cup of coffee that pushed us over the line. I returned home and skipped my morning coffee (of course) and breakfast and crashed under the comfort of the blanket. I had no ounce of strength left to even eat. All that mattered was sleep, a good sound sleep!
And a good sound sleep is what I got myself. Woke up at 3 a.m. for lunch!
After such a hectic duty, I felt I deserved to break the rule and treat myself to a nice strong cup of coffee! As in my last #spillthebeans story, I still don't have my espresso machine in our new house. So I asked my wife to make me sort of a turkish coffee. She has mastered the dark arts when I was preparing for an exam last years and she'd make me coffee in the late afternoons.
I also picked up my harry potter series from where I left off and decided to start reading "Order of the Phoenix." A cup of warm, strong coffee on a cold afternoon and a book on my lap as I curl under the blanket - there are very few things that beats this combo offer and I had to dive in!
Ebooks and PDFs seem to be talk of the town, but there's something extremely vintage about paperback books that I can never get over. When you have coffee to go with it, you can forget about your surroundings for a while. Ciao, as I dive in...nose deep!
