Anderson Cooper The Journalist

You’re going to really laugh, and I don’t know what this post has to do with this blog…but I today drank my first cup of coffee since 1999. Oh Happy Day !!

That’s right. I don’t drink coffee. I hate coffee. Before 1999, I used to binge on coffee during school exams to keep me awake to study all night. I mean, those exams were tough. It’s not that I liked coffee back then…I just did it out of necessity, duty and to fit in with everyone else. Boarding schools are crazy during exam weeks. Everyone is doped up on coffee and walks around like zombies trying to remember their latest trigonometry lesson simultaneously while trying to figure out if scrambled eggs should be considered as an option for breakfast. I mean…with all those gallons of coffee in the gut, it’s no time to start compulsively vomiting all over books and papers. What’s that for a grade? you passed with an ‘A+’ and a paper full of a brownish/yellowish substance all over it. yikes.

I should use past tense since those days are long gone, oh well…I love using present tense, puts me back in ‘the moment’

What prompted me to drink coffee today? Cynthia. One of our staff member. She told me something I should have known in an email, and I replied: “I’m slow today”, to which she replied: “coffee”. That word intrigued me. Now I hadn’t tasted coffee since 1999.

So I’ve had my first cup of coffee on 09-09-09…maybe it’s my own pathetic way of making today meaningful. It’s supposed to be a special day because of all the ’9′…supposed to mean something along the lines of longevity. For now, coffee will give me some much needed longevity as I need to stay awake. So perhaps today is truly a magical day. A coffee magical day that is. I don’t even know what that means. It’s truly a miracle I’m drinking coffee.

Is coffee the new ‘alcohol’ ? This is what people say…and it’s true that coffee can make you feel as though you’re drunk especially when you get those pounding headaches after a long sleepless night filled with black coffee cups to get your adrenaline going. Why do I need to bring up the word ‘alcohol’ in a coffee post? Go figure. Someone should try mixing vodka with coffee, and make a new drink out of it. But maybe this type of drink already exists? I wouldn’t know…I don’t drink bizarre concoctions and shady mixtures except wine mixed with milk on ice. Do try that. A real little poison.

Update: Not that we care but this drink really exists…I googled it… on the other hand wine and milk on ice needs to yet find an entrepreneur with curageous or alien taste buds. Here’s the coffee and vodka drink below:

But I’m not the worst offender when it comes to coffee virginity.

Yes, this is a blog about Anderson Cooper so you knew his name was going to come up at some point or another.

Turns out Anderson Cooper has never had coffee…in his life. Or so he says. I found this on youtube, it’s absolutely hillarious…it was from 3 years ago when Anderson co-hosted (is there a ‘-’ between co-hosted ???) live with Regis and Kelly and subbed for Regis.

Now back to the serious stuff and let’s go to Aaron reporting live from his living room about tonight’s AC360, Aaron ?