Coffee @ Crazy Mocha
After DWiP’s (Duquesne Women in Philosophy) monthly meeting, Taine and I finally went out on our belated coffee date at Crazy Mocha’s. She was the one who helped me the most with arrangements and other Pittsburgh/Duquesne questions before I physically imported myself to the east coast. Honestly, I’m not sure how I would have survived without her helpfulness! Unfortunately, by the time I arrived in the Steel City, she had already left for Berlin as a visiting scholar for one year. Now that she’s finally back, I’ve finally had the wonderful opportunity of meeting her! Before, I’ve only seen her in pictures on her Facebook profile. I must say, I didn’t know what to expect, and was unsure what kind of a person she would be like.
She’s very pretty and attractive in her own right, and definitely has the self-confidence but yet also humbleness of a sucessful (I would venture to characterize) woman philosopher. She’s very down-to-earth, but at the same time has an almost untimely elegant style. So: I really like her.
At Crazy Mocha, treated her that cup of coffee that I had promised for an entire year, and we sat and talked about our work, our interests, our approaches and thoughts on feminist theory, her stay in Berlin, the national (re)construction of a collective German identity, problems with politics… and of course, what some philosophers have to say about the world we live in, e.g. Arendt, Luxemburg, Habermas. I really enjoyed it! And I know such intellectual conversations will be greatly missed after I return back to Seattle. That is not to say that the things I talk about with my friends are meaningless, but it is quite different talking to a fellow scholar on pressing issues in a shared field.
It is really too bad that I have to leave now that we’ve finally met, but hopefully in the future, we will be able to meet again! And of course, there’s always email!
On a completely different note: I just bought a keyboard protector for my Macbook, and I’m still trying to get use to the touch and texture, so I’m still typing rather slowly. There are many keys that I can’t seem to hit at the right time. It’s quite a big difference…. and actually rather annoying. Instead of the slick surface that I’m used to, my fingers are hitting a rubbery, almost sticky kind of texture. But it protects my keyboard, and I have really no choice because some of the letters on the keypad are rubbing off. So, I’m trying to use it as much as possible in order to get used to it. .
Today we have really nice autumn weather in Pittsburgh. About 71 F, there is still a cool breeze that passes through. This is one season that I really enjoy about the east coast. Summer, not so much. The winters are really way too cold to my body’s liking.
