A start.

Keystrokes and coffee. My "fillintheblank" of the thousands of creative blog titles across the webiverse. I won't succeed if I try too hard, so I'm going with why I'm writing. For many reasons, keystrokes and coffee are why I'll be here.

Keystrokes, literally because I love the sound, the feeling, that pitter patter, that finger dance, the padding and trodding my fingers make on a keyboard. Some keyboards more than others. Some keys more than others. The & and ? and + more than the & and ^ and \ for example (and in my typing this just now I just figured out how to make the |... oh the discoveries to come!).

On to the coffee. I love it. I am unfathomably bad at making it sometimes. Ask my boyfriend. (I complicated things even further my adding salt to his on accident once) But I love it. It's the only food item I can justify buying more than twice a week. Because it's delicious. And because I need it. I love the feeling, as well as the look, of a fat, thick mug in my hands or anyone else's. I equally love the earthy, yet professional feel of the paper cup. And I like it black. Pure and unadulterated. I have to take life without the sugar and cream, so might as well practice with the coffee. And I love it that way. Don't water it down, and you can enjoy its true essence even more.

Further driving metaphors... I like the slightly askew alliteration. Much like my political, religious, and ethical beliefs which are eternally developing and just as steadfastly held, the K and C don't quite match up, but almost. And if you say it the right way, they make perfect sense together. You just have to speak correctly.

Also, It's only with the working attitude implied by above title that I will achieve the intellectual and spiritual strength that I seek to use the internet here to define in myself. This blog will chronicle my adventures across the pages of the internet, searching for, throwing out, and filing the lessons and ideas I see as helpful or stupid. I already have a journal. This is not for my pure emotion or chronicling of my life. But for a place to file away thoughts that crossed my mind about articles, videos, art, news, etc. My intellectual notebook of sorts. I'm sure I'll venture into some whining or remembering every here and there. But the purpose is to work away at my study of life. I've let that drift away in my drive for a career. And I refuse to let my career exclude such study.

I will be a student all my life. And the keystrokes and coffee that characterized plugging away through high school (yes I drank lots of coffee in high school), college and my masters will keep me plugging away. Here's to a coffee date... to knowledge, understanding, and searching. See you there soon. I'll take mine black. How do you take yours?