darn you, global economic crisis!

As a student with absolutely no money and just mounting debt with each year that passes, all this talk of failing economies and possible recessions hasn't seemed to affect me all too much; even as a consumer to be perfectly honest it's gone largely unnoticed. That is, until last night.

In between dinner and a movie with a friend we stopped by Starbucks where, much to my dismay, my trusty Cafe Americano was no longer $3.60! Apparently they raised the prices just that afternoon, reflecting, in particular, the current demise of the US dollar. I know monetarily it's "just" 20cents, but it goes a huge way psychologically: $3.60 would round down in my head to $3.50 which would round down even further to $3.00, and $3.00 for a coffee isn't that bad; unfortunately, there's no way of rounding $3.80 any way but up, and well, $4.00 for a coffee seems to make me feel somewhat guilty.

Shoot. I knew I had some sort of backwards investment in the US Economy, postgraduate study plans aside.

The frustrating thing about it is that I know when the US economy eventually does turn around Starbucks won't be lowering prices accordingly. Darn you, places that sell deliciously addictive stimulants for outrageously high prices! Darn you, American upbringing that got me hooked to said addictive stimulants! Darn you, global economic crisis for making me think about all this waaaaaaay too much!