It starts.

In the beginning, there was one S'mug Bitch. Why was she smug, you ask? Well, lucky for you, she's willing to boast (but just this once). The "S" in "S'Bitch" stands for a whole semester of four-day weekends. After sustaining years of torment at the hands of a graduate program that had no idea what to do with her, S'Bitch has finally seen to it that she is only required to be on campus three days per week.

The upside to this is, well, it's an upside in and of itself. The downside is that if S'Bitch stays home on Mondays and Fridays, she will sit in bed. Yes, she will sit in bed watching Buffy, reading sci-fi, playing computer games, and not accomplishing doodley squat. S'Bitch likes to be a productive member of society. She's got ideas and things to do. But S'Bitch also has inertia issues (a Bitch at rest tends to stay at rest).

Why am I telling you this? Because it is the reason this blog is happening. S'Bitch decided that I (for I am she) need to take my work to new and exciting locations, lest I contract a serious case of Oblomovitis. Since working on campus will plunge me into a vat of despair (please excuse the hyperbole), I will be cafe hopping in search of the perfect conditions for productivity. And then blogging about it instead of actually being productive.

Finding a good cafe has always seemed something of a mystery to me. Every Yelp review I read has a lot of satisfied customers, and a lot of disgruntled ones. Why, I lamented, isn't there one central website where I can find a list of great cafes? I wish there were one person, someone deliciously saucy; one wiser, more beautiful, charming and intelligent than all the other Yelp reviewers, who could just tell me where to find what I am looking for.

That's where I come in.

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At least once a week, but often twice or thrice, I will visit an as-yet unreviewed (by S'Bitch) cafe, and I will tell you everything that you (er...I) ever wanted to know about it. There will be enough snark for everyone, so bring your friends!