Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Lunch at Berkeley: Bear's Lair

It's still raining.  It hasn't stopped raining since last week.  To say the least, I'd prefer it to stop.


This is by far the worst view I've shown in my series of lunches on campus.  You can see Zellerbach Hall, though, which is a lovely place that is often filled with schoolchildren on weekday field trips.  However, if it wasn't apparent above, my displeasure with the weather has grown quite substantial.  The real indicator, though, that I'm at my limit is the coffee in the photo's foreground.  I rarely drink hot beverages let alone hot coffee.  I wasn't even in need of the caffeine.  I just wanted to feel warm again.

The coffee tasted about as good as a one-dollar coffee can - harsh, not particularly strong.  I didn't help it by adding artificial sweetener.  My hope was to make it palatable, but I wasn't willing to wait or stir long enough for real sugar to dissolve.  In the end, I had a rather unpleasant coffee to badly accompany the turkey and salami sandwich that I had packed earlier in the morning.

Give me sunshine, and I'll give you UC Berkeley.  Pray, conjur, dance, whatever, just do something to help me get out of this gloom.

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