I heart coffee

Hi, I'm Mark and I'm a coffee addict. Actually, I need to be more specific. I'm addicted to coffee here in Portugal. I drink way too much, but I'm convinced it helps me with my Portuguese. For example, today I didn't have a cafe before heading out to the store to find some paper for our printer. My tongue felt very heavy and wouldn't work very well. I stumbled through easy sentences and my brain couldn't keep up even when the clerk asked me simple questions.

But then I got a cafe. And my tongue all of a sudden began making sounds that I didn't know could be uttered from my mouth! My brain was working and I felt like a million euros! I was conjugating verbs like no foreigner should!

I actually only drink about 4-5 cups per day. But, I've been told that each espresso that I drink holds the equivalent of 4-5 cups of "machine-brewed" American coffee. So that puts me somewhere in the neighborhood of 16-25 cups of American coffee per day??? What??? I mean, I've been known to polish off a pot of coffee while talking with my brother-in-law, but that's a mere 10 cups split between the two of us! We're in trouble when he comes to visit in July---we may just overdose on espresso while talking shop and hanging out at the beach.

As you can tell I'm struggling to come up with substantive content for my blog. Life tends to move pretty quickly here and before I know it a week has gone by and it's hard to post all that's going on. I've got an idea though---I'll make sure I run out and grab a cafe and then I'll be sure to have a well-functioning brain in which to write something interesting. Be right back!