To my people at Starbucks.

This is a special note for my people at the coffee shop.

For the ones who don't know, I have a little routine; I usually go to work for an hour and then take a break and go hang out at Starbucks (even though I am not so crazy about large companies like that that killed all the little cute coffee shops). I go there because I like my group of people, and I try not to order anything because I don't drink coffee anyway.

Petit message pour mes potes au cafe du coin.
Pour ceux qui ne le savent pas, j'ai une petite routine; je vais au boulot le matin pendant une heure et apres je prend une pause et vais au Starbucks d'a cote. Comme j'y vais tous les jours a la meme heure, je retrouve les habitues du matin et nous avons notre petit groupe super sympa; on parle, on rigole et on essaye de refaire le monde et c'est mon moment favori de la journee.

First there is Bill : "The Mayor of Starbucks" (He is very important like every mayor in every town, he gets to chose who is part of the group or not)

Tout d'abord, il y a Bill : "le Maire de Starbucks" (Il est tres important, comme tout maire.)

Then there is Arnavaz, the smartest of all of us (and the most politically involved and opiniated), she definitely brings spices into our mix of people there.

There is Craig "the Doc". We are happy he is there because a medical advice is always needed (even though he recommended chocolate on my burned butt from the Hot spring, I am not so sure he got that out of medical book, we will still go to him for med. advice)


And Mike "the Firefighter", he is kinda useless (like most firefighters are 80% of the day) but we like him anyway.
There is also Pat. She is so sweet.

And there are others who were not there the day I brought my camera but deserve to be recognized like the handsome Jay who I hope will bring his laptop there to show this post to the others. Jay seems to be the busy one, he works a lot or at least fakes he is working a lot, but I suspect he just stays late in bed when he doesn't show up in the morning at Starbucks. Let's not forget Leslie (ah crazy Leslie), And Tom (Pat's husband), also Heidi and Suzy who come once in a while but are definitely part of the gang, and finally Hue who got back by surprise from the monks in LA right before I left to Japan.

"I MISS YOU ALL VERY MUCH, AND AM ALWAYS THINKING OF YOU HERE IN JAPAN. I WILL BE DRINKING SOME JAPANESE TEA TO YOUR HEALTH". "KAMPAI!!"