Happy 4/20 everyone! I recently started drinking coffee in the last year after never really liking it. Growing up I would try my mom's coffee every once in a while but it always tasted burnt and bitter. Looking back I realize that I didn't like that coffee due to my mom usually steeping it in a French press for 15-20 minutes.
I got into coffee in the last year due to my roommate who worked as a barista making me some and it being actually flavorful. But we were using a drip coffee machine and it wasn't strong enough for my liking. Before I actually started drinking coffee I liked to watch coffee gadget reviews cause I thought they were interesting? Which is how I found out about the aeropress which is my way I make my coffee in the morning.
The aeropress is kind of a three one thing cause it's a pour over, French press and manual espresso machine all in one, in addition I use a hand crank burr grinder to grind my beans and typically only add a bit of creamer as I want to taste the coffee as much as possible I also usually use medium roast beans.
How do you take your coffee/tea?
HRT has caused me to take better care of my appearance.
It used to be the case that people would assume I was homeless and would try to donate clothes and shoes to me (this is not a joke, I've had occasions on the train station where people would take off their personal belongings and try to donate them to me*).
Now? People ignore me. Which is ... not really sure that's much better ...
It is somewhat nice to have people randomly pity you and try to give you shit. Makes you feel like the world cares. But I also like feeling like I'm sad and small and pathetic.
*this happened mostly in the winter where I wore clothes so skimpy people thought I was freezing because I couldn't afford proper clothing. It was actually because I liked freezing in the cold.