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Words: I start off pretty much every day with a cup of coffee. It's sort of an or-else situation. I'm not very pleasant without my morning cup. These days, my morning cup is drip coffee with freshly ground Free Trade Organic Espresso Blend from Trader Joe's. I love that it's dark enough to allow me to pretty much make it a cafe au lait (I like a lot of milk), but it's not bitter, so there's no need for sugar. It does annoy me to no end that it's called espresso, though. Espresso doesn't have anything to do with the type of bean or darkness of roast: espresso is finely ground coffee made with pressurized nearly boiling water. Misnamed things annoy me. (Don't even get me started on Starbucks calling their carmel vanilla lattes "carmel macchiatos". Or gas stations calling whatever that is a cappuccino.) As you can see, I'm pretty snooty about coffee. And I miss walking over to the coffeeshop everyday to spend my morning cup with people who were even more serious about it than I am.
Here's what you can take from this:
- Your face doesn't have to be in the photo! Your hands or feet or other extremities can capture you well, too.
- For hand shots, hand over the camera to someone else or use your camera's self-timer.
- Let your writing take you where ever. I ended up babbling up there, but I can always clean that paragraph up later to make it into a more solid piece of writing.I can also expand it to talk about my relationship with coffee over all: how I started drinking it when I was 7, what working in a coffeeshop was like, going to coffeehouses to see concerts as a teen, hanging out in the coffeeshop across the street from us when we lived in a loft, my favorite in-walking-distance coffeeshop now, etc. See if there's any documentation you've done so far that could use some expanding.
This is my documentation from the Daily Doc | Nov 2012 handout. It has 30 prompts to use if you get stuck documenting. I'm tackling all of these this month AND doing unplanned daily documentation. I printed out the prompts (pages 2-4 of the handout) and I'm highlighting them to cross them off as I go. I'm not doing them in order; I'm using them as they make sense for me.
If you did documentation from the handout today, post a link to it in the comments section!
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