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The Starbucks I go to every morning when I go to work has closed down for renovations.\u00a0 They estimate that they will be back open in July.<\/span><\/p>\n This is pretty much the worst news I\u2019ve heard in my entire life and I am legitimately upset over this recent development.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t really know what to do moving forward.\u00a0 I can handle the interruption of my morning ritual, but I can\u2019t handle the denial of a consistent delivery of caffeine.\u00a0 As much as I may bitch and whine about all the students and corporate stiffs who get there before I do and plug up the lines, I\u2019ve literally gone to this Starbucks almost every single work day, and quite a few weekend days that I\u2019ve happened to be in the neighborhood.\u00a0 I can probably count on one hand how many work days in which I did not go to Starbucks.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not being able to go again for the next two months and possibly some change, will, and has already devastated me.\u00a0 The first of many anticipated caffeine-deprived headaches has already set in, and has altered my mood, my gym workout, as well as my general state of being, and I fear that this is going to happen a lot until Starbucks opens again.<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, I need solutions, to my now daily-dilemma of where my caffeine is going to come from.\u00a0 As if I couldn\u2019t make this sound any more insufferable, there\u2019s actually another Starbucks within reasonable walking distance.\u00a0 It\u2019s\u00a0four<\/em>\u00a0blocks away from the office, but because it\u2019s not\u00a0one\u00a0<\/em>block away like the renovating one, I\u2019m calling in lazy and discounting it as an option.\u00a0 Perhaps if it were the fall or the winter, I\u2019d reconsider, but with the temperatures already hitting the 90s, it\u2019s simply too fucking hot, and I don\u2019t want to come back all sweaty and gross feeling, toting hot coffee for four blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s always the other local eateries that advertise coffee, which may win out, but I lose the convenience of having a dedicated card that earns me free shit by going to them, so I may have to consider carrying some coffee-allocated cash until July.<\/span><\/p>\n Energy drinks and alternatives to coffee are also on the table, but frankly, the idea of also consuming upwards of 360g of sodium don\u2019t sound very appealing either.\u00a0 An energy drink is the only thing keeping me going at this moment, but I\u2019d have concerns over the massive quantities of sodium and other shit that\u2019s swilled in with carbonated drinks over the next two months going this route.<\/span><\/p>\n And then there\u2019s always bringing in my own coffee.\u00a0 If I worked at a cool agency or studio, coffee is one of those things that\u2019s often times provided by the company, but alas, that\u2019s not the case for me.\u00a0 It\u2019s almost amazing that this place has a Keurig machine at all, but the fact of the matter is that I\u2019d have to bring in my own K-cups if I want to have coffee.\u00a0 This is a logical route that saves me time, and honestly probably a little bit of money, but at the same time, I\u2019d be lying if I didn\u2019t say a coffee walk wasn\u2019t entirely done for the sake of just caffeine.<\/span><\/p>\n These are my options, but I\u2019d rather not have had to have thought of them in the first place.\u00a0 But for whatever reason, my Starbucks felt the need to renovate; I can\u2019t imagine the place is going to be any more efficient (or not) than it already is, given the corporate policy to not separate basic drip coffee customers from those who want to have a venti espresso Americano with a sweet and low and two Splendas, with fat-free soy milk, and a shot of hazelnut.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine how renovating the place is going to make it any better or worse than it already is, but that may very well just be the point; looking like all the other Starbucks, regardless of the customer experience.<\/span><\/p>\n I understand that this is a picture perfect definition of a first world problem, but god damn it, I\u2019m a creature of habit, and I like to have my caffeine in the form of coffee in the mornings.\u00a0 And this Starbucks closing on account of renovation really does throw my daily life into somewhat of a tailspin.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Starbucks I go to every morning when I go to work has closed down for renovations.\u00a0 They estimate that they will be back open in July. This is pretty much the worst news I\u2019ve heard in my entire life and I am legitimately upset over this recent development. 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