My choice of caffeine

Let me tell you about my favorite kind of coffee. (because I have just had one, and my fingers are itchy)

Sometimes I just drink coffee for the caffeine, and when I do, I just chug down a can of Nescafe original (the gold coloured one) since it is the most cost-effective caffeine there is. one can will give me a boost for about 4 hours. (although the half-life of caffeine is approximately 24 hours)

 The other times when I want to spoil myself, I drink a caffè latte / Flat White. I think I particularly enjoy the little brown frothy bits between the white cream milk and the black coffee. The other thing about flat white is the temperature. because the hot coffee is mixed with milk, the temperature is bearable for my delicate (more delicate than I would like to admit) tongue. 

I could just order a black coffee, but I always end up gazing at the coffee for a while, probably sniffing it, while waiting for it to cool down to a suitable temperature. I feel like I may offend the barista by doing it so I feel a slight tinge of guilt while waiting. It's worse when I am drinking coffee with someone. "why won't you start drinking?" and I would have to be honest and tell them I'm waiting for it to cool (seems very fussy) or I have to make up some silly stories like I'm going to predict my future by looking at the colour change (there is none) of the coffee over time. 

so I like my Flat White. it tastes nice, not too hot, and it is simple. 

Another type of coffee I prefer is an Affogato. just in case you haven't heard of it (the term itself is kind of younger than me!), it is just ice-cream drowned in espresso.
as you might have guessed it, there is no concern about the hot temperature, and it's a combination of sweet ice-cream and bitter coffee, and cold ice-cream and hot coffee. there is a good equilibrium of hot-cold, sweet-bitter combination and thus I feel like I'm poking at the yin-yang while I'm nudging at the ice-cream floating in the coffee.
In the case of an Affogato, the more bitter espresso the better, and the sweeter the better for the ice-cream. I like to enjoy the hot-cold-bitter-sweet mess before everything becomes a murky sludge that is tepid and chaotic in flavour.

I was about to say something about how my choice of coffee would tell me about me - so I found an article online. go check it out if you may be interested.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/09/11/what-does-your-coffee-reveal-about-you/

basically I'm a comfort-seeking procrastinator with a child inside... maybe.