oh geesh

it has been a LONNNNNNGGGG time since i wrote anything here.
life has been a rollercoaster of decision making and heart breaks the past few months.
i have decided to leave pittsburgh,as of august 27th -ish in pursuit of a more coffee-centric existence. the plan as of now, is to make my way to st. louis to meet up with a friend from college and drive along the lewis & clark trail to oregon. from there, my friend is taking the ferry to alaska for her big move and i will see if i can find a job in the great wild west.
i would really like to find a job working at either a shop run by a roastery or at an actual roastery. perhaps a place like what the barismo guys are now doing out of their shop in Beantown.
ideally everything will work out and we will all live happily ever after, but if it doesnt, i will come back to the east coast to discover what philadelphia has to offer.

the hardest part is definitely thinking about what will happen once i'm gone. will anyone remember that time i served them the best looking macchiato they'd ever seen? will anyone remember that time i rigged the latte art competition so that i would win? kidding.
no really though. this move has brought up alot of quandries for myself as to place, community and one's existence as a barista in society. as a player on the fringe, how does my decision to leave effect my community. will the quality of coffee beverages at my place of employment go down? will jokes not be in as much of an abundance and without that daily laughter, is everyone going to die sooner?
serious questions, my friends.
this move has also put me into an obligatory place where i have to write everything that i have done down, rather than just remembering that i have done something. i have to create a record for otehrs to reference in the future. writing is hard and so is remembering to write everything.