Writing Portfolio and Where in the Java

As I'm sure you all know, I've been back in classes for about two months now. This week marks the half-way point in the semester - with some unpleasant little surprises. I just found out this week that the writing portfolio required by WSU of all students is "due" before I can register for any of my classes for the upcoming spring semester. Here's the great part too, I can only use one of my papers from Clark and will need a total of two more papers that I've supposedly written for my classes this term. Problem: I have no papers due in any of my classes. I have lab reports. That's it. But enough about school...

If you've been following Pastor Seth's blog at all you know that I've been filming and editing the "Where in the Java" series. We've had a lot of fun so far, and found 4 good coffee places (I'd even go so far as to say two good and two excellent coffee places). The last two episodes have been filmed in downtown Vancouver at the Paradise Cafe on 13th and Main. Paradise Cafe has that niche coffee shop, hole-in-the-wall, downtown, brick feeling and the baristas there are absolutely amazing and very friendly. I believe that they use a local roaster, 49th Parallel, for their beans. The latest episode was filmed at Mon Ami cafe on 19th and Main, again, downtown Vancouver. They proudly serve Stumptown Roasters for their beans. Stumptown is a very local company and will not even ship their beans as far as central Oregon! But with Stumptown coffee you can actually taste the flavor of the coffee bean, unlike the so-called "Starbuck's experience," where all you taste is something burnt with some chocolate in it. The atmosphere at Mon Ami is very much a relaxing, living-room-with-your-friends, type of coffee shop. Go check out the video if you haven't already. Our new host and coffee critic, Scott Ulmen, described the coffee and the atmosphere best.

"Where in the Java" will we be next time?