If there is one thing better than coffee you are reasonably certain has been roasted sometime within the past month, it is coffee you are absolutely certain has been roasted exactly nine and one-half hours before you brew it.

That is all.

Apparently, you can't get good bagels in Houghton. Or at least, I couldn't find any. So I made my own. Unfortunately, I messed up something, and ended up with round bread-objects almost, but not quite completely unlike bagels.

The crumb is too coarse, so they pretty much taste like regular bread in the shape of bagels. I THINK that the problem either is that I didn't knead the dough well enough, left them to rise too long, or both. I will try again on Friday when I don't have to run off to class in the middle of making them.