Let's see...I don't have a lot of coffee related topics to blog about, but I can talk about what I'm up to.

Lately I've been super busy. I'm in the begining of a school semster where I am taking double the credit hours that I'm used to, still working about 30 hours at the shop (which has come to include the fun open and close split shifts,) still setting aside time to work in the a/v area of my church, and somewhere still finding time to do things like sleep.
At first the new crazy pace of life was knocking me out, but I think I am slowly getting used to it.

Things are good at the shop, not counting the slow down in business which I think everyone is feeling right now. I currently have a good group of barista's that know their stuff and are handling shifts on their own now. (I think last time I blogged I mentioned all the training I was doing.) There are still a couple of girls that need some work before they are allowed to serve drinks to the customers, but it'll happen. Guess a trainers work is never done.
Recently the person that comes from our roaster to do periodic in-house training came. Overall he seemed pleased with the level of training I've been able to give our staff, which I take as a complament. :)

Despite my hectic pace I've been thinking a lot about the level of training I give to others and how I really want to gain some more taining for myself so I can up the level for my trainees. How to go about this I haven't a clue yet, but hey.
And as a random thought, there really needs to be mini barista and coffee schools across the country, not just in Portland.

Anyway, that's pretty much where my life is at right now. Sprinkle on some smiles over the upcoming coffee fest in Chicago and that fills out the picture. So with that, I think I'm done.

Until my next blog - which might be in a few months from the looks of it.
Cherie