Breathing Without Coffee

I would like, for once, for my college experience to be a "typical" college experience that we all dream about when we are younger and hope to find once the college years come. But alas, I find myself disappointed in this sense today due to the lack of coffee in the near walking vicinity.

For those of you who have spoken with me the past couple of months, you will know that in that time period I have become addicted to coffee. It was really only a matter of time before it happened. Both of my parents, at one point of another were addicted to coffee, therefore predisposing me for addiction. Of any kind really. I'd say I'm lucky that it came in the form of coffee. Of all the possibilities that I considered to put my addiction genes to good use (cocaine, stripping, gambling, Angry Birds, feet), coffee seems to have more benefits than costs (at least at the moment).

But back to my dilemma. I work in a lab on campus as a research assistant. The reserach project has to do with the well-being of egg-laying hens. Yep, chickens. For the most part I record behavior, both in a live setting and also through observing pictures in the lab.

Side note: In case you are wondering...I have no desire to pursue a career with chickens. This opportunity just happened to present itself to me last summer. It pays decently and gives me research, animal handling, and well-being experience. Plus it is in the lab of my favorite Animal Science professor: Dr. Joe Garner. He is a sexy, 30-something, brilliant, British man who taught my Animal Behavior class. And who would be teaching me Animal Welfare this fall, but is sadly (sad for me, great for him) taking a position at Stanford University. He leaves this week. Nonetheless, he is the reason I decided to concentrate my degree in Behavior/Well-being and he has been extremely helpful in assisting me with my career dilemmas.

Anyway, my point is that I am currently in the lab working and desperately in need of some liquid addiction. And I wish I worked in a building on campus that was not in BFE so that I could simply walk a block to coffee.

There's my rant. Listen to this song. Between Two Lungs- Florence + the Machine