I drink coffee all day. Mmmmmcoffeecoffeecoffee. A typical coffee day for me is: pot of caffeinated before breakfast; pot of decaf after dropping the kids off; iced coffee from the leftovers while I write in the morning; cup of coffee from the office machine before a meeting in the afternoon; furtive swig of the dregs of a cup I discover on my desk at the end of the day. Don't you judge me.
So when TIME.com asked me at five in the afternoon if I'd go down to Starbucks, get a cup of their new Pike Place Roast and review it, I naturally said yes. Especially because I was on deadline to finish writing the table of contents for Friday's TIME magazine. If your issue arrives late this week, my bad.