This morning I find myself in a beloved coffee shop, munching on a peach scone, sipping a chai tea latte, and further breaking in my copy of Heart of Darkness (our assigned reading pre-seminar) with my usual amalgamation of underlines, margin notes, and haphazard, codified markings in unforgiving black ink. The scone is now eviscerated, only a few crumbs remain to remind of its previous existence, the now one-third cup of chai remaining is cold, and my annotations have reached the second section of the book. And in one of my favorite places, introspection has come to call.
I realized that one month from yesterday is the first day of the ACM Newberry Seminar. It’s hard to believe that in a month’s time I’ll be unpacked (or realistically, SOMEWHAT unpacked) into a shared studio apartment and will have already begun exploring the Newberry. And I’m sure, my personal dedication to finding a new favorite coffee shop and a chai tea will be soon to follow. Although how any shop can hold a candle to fuel, my favorite shop in my college town, I’m still unsure of.
In this blog I plan to share about my adventure in my semester with the ACM Newberry Seminar: Research in the Humanities and exploration and introspection in the Second City. I’m sure to post more as I prepare for the adventure ahead, but for now, I have a chai to finish and some annotating to do.
a familiar view from my favorite table at the back of the shop.
trees, teas, and tomes 